Nowe Proboszczewice is a
village
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in the administrative district of
Gmina Stara Biała
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Gmina Stara Biała is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Biała, which lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-west of Płock and ...
, within
Płock County
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Płock County ( pl, powiat płocki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government refo ...
,
Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.
It lies approximately north of
Płock and north-west of
Warsaw
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.
Geography
The town is located on the Wierzbica River, a tributary of the Skrwa River.
Nowe Proboszczewice is in the municipality of Stara Biala. In the years 1975–1998, the town was administratively part of the Plock province.
[Proboszczewice in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland. T. XV, part. 2: Januszpol - Wola Justowska. Warsaw 1902.]
The population of the town was 1470 at the 2011
census
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.
[Strona polskawliczbach.pl]
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See also
* Old Proboszczewice
* Proboszczewice Plockie
References
Nowe Proboszczewice
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