Niedźwiada is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

in Lubartów County, Lublin Voivodeship, 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 populous ...

, about 10 km north of

Lubartów Lubartów () is a town in eastern Poland, with 23,000 inhabitants (2004), situated in Lublin Voivodeship. It is the capital of Lubartów County and the Lubartów Commune. Historically it belongs to Lesser Poland. Lubartów was established in 154 ...

and 30 km north of

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 ...

. It is the seat of the

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) called

Gmina Niedźwiada __NOTOC__ Gmina Niedźwiada is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Lubartów County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Niedźwiada, which lies approximately north-east of Lubartów and north of the regional ...

. In 2001 there was a proposal to build an airport near the village to serve the city of

, and a company was formed 2004 with involvement from local and regional government, but in 2007 a location on the outskirts of Świdnik, east of Lublin, was chosen as the site for Lublin Airport, which opened in 2012.

References

Gmina Niedźwiada

Airport Niedźwiada
Villages in Lubartów County {{Lubartów-geo-stub