Gmina Leśniowice is a rural
gmina
The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' , from German ''Gemeinde'' meaning ''commune'') is the principal unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,477 gminas throughout the country, encompassing over 4 ...
(administrative district) in
Chełm County
Chełm County ( pl, powiat chełmski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local g ...
,
Lublin Voivodeship
The Lublin Voivodeship, also known as the Lublin Province (Polish: ''województwo lubelskie'' ), is a voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in southeastern part of the country. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Lublin, Che ...
, in eastern
Poland
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. Its seat is the village of
Leśniowice, which lies approximately south of
Chełm
Chełm (; uk, Холм, Kholm; german: Cholm; yi, כעלם, Khelm) is a city in southeastern Poland with 60,231 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is located to the south-east of Lublin, north of Zamość and south of Biała Podlaska, some ...
and south-east of the regional capital
Lublin
Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of t ...
.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 3,996.
Villages
Gmina Leśniowice contains the villages and settlements of
Alojzów,
Dębina,
Horodysko,
Janówka,
Kasiłan,
Kumów Majoracki,
Kumów Plebański,
Leśniowice,
Leśniowice-Kolonia,
Majdan Leśniowski,
Nowy Folwark,
Plisków,
Plisków-Kolonia,
Politówka,
Poniatówka,
Rakołupy,
Rakołupy Duże
Rakołupy Duże is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Leśniowice, within Chełm County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.
References
Villages in Chełm County
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,
Rakołupy Małe,
Sarniak,
Sielec,
Teresin,
Wierzbica and
Wygnańce.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Leśniowice is bordered by the gminas of
Chełm
Chełm (; uk, Холм, Kholm; german: Cholm; yi, כעלם, Khelm) is a city in southeastern Poland with 60,231 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is located to the south-east of Lublin, north of Zamość and south of Biała Podlaska, some ...
,
Kamień,
Kraśniczyn,
Siennica Różana
Siennica Różana is a village in Krasnystaw County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Siennica Różana. It lies approximately east of Krasnystaw
Krasnystaw ( uk, Кр ...
,
Wojsławice and
Żmudź.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
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Lesniowice
Chełm County