Gmina Tarnogród is an urban-rural
gmina (administrative district) in
Biłgoraj County
Biłgoraj County ( pl, powiat biłgorajski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms pass ...
,
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, C ...
, in eastern
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
. Its seat is the town of
Tarnogród
Tarnogród (; yi, טאַרנעגראָד, Tarnegrod; uk, Терногород, Ternohorod, or , ''Tarnohorod'') is a town in Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. It has a population of 3,399 (2006).
Tarnogród is the southernmost to ...
, which lies approximately south of
Biłgoraj
Biłgoraj ( yi, בילגאריי, ''Bilgoray'', ua, Білґорай) is a town in south-eastern Poland with 25,838 inhabitants as of December 2021. Since 1999 it has been situated in Lublin Voivodeship; it was previously located in Zamość V ...
and south of the regional capital
Lublin.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 6,860 (out of which the population of Tarnogród amounts to 3,372, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 3,488).
Villages
Apart from the town of Tarnogród, Gmina Tarnogród contains the villages and settlements of
Bolesławin,
Cichy,
Jamieńszczyzna,
Kolonia Różaniecka,
Luchów Dolny,
Luchów Górny,
Pierogowiec,
Popówka,
Różaniec,
Różaniec-Szkoła,
Wola Różaniecka and
Zagrody.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Tarnogród is bordered by the gminas of
Adamówka,
Biszcza,
Księżpol,
Kuryłówka
Kuryłówka is a village in Leżajsk County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Kuryłówka. It lies on the navigable San River, approximately north-east of ...
,
Łukowa,
Obsza and
Stary Dzików.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
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Biłgoraj County