__NOTOC__ Gmina Nowe Warpno is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in

Police County __NOTOC__ Police County ( pl, powiat policki, ) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland, on the Polish-German border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a res ...

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, in north-western

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, on the

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border. Its seat is the town of

Nowe Warpno Nowe Warpno (; formerly german: Neuwarp) is a historic town in northwestern Poland, within Police County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It lies on the shore of the Szczecin Lagoon, at the border with Germany. It is the seat of the urban-rural ad ...

, which lies approximately north-west of

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and north-west of the regional capital Szczecin. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 1,534 (out of which the population of Nowe Warpno amounts to 1,170, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 364).

Villages

Apart from the town of Nowe Warpno, Gmina Nowe Warpno contains the villages and settlements of Brzózki, Maszkowo, Mszczuje, Myślibórz Mały,

Myślibórz Wielki Myślibórz Wielki (; german: Groß Mützelburg) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowe Warpno, within Police County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland, close to the German border. It lies approximately south ...

, Popielewo, Trzebieradz and

Warnołęka Warnołęka (german: Wahrlang)''Ortsnamenverzeichnis der Ortschaften jenseits von Oder und Neiße'' by M. Kaemmerer is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowe Warpno, within Police County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northwester ...

Tourism

The most interesting places are

Szczecin Lagoon Szczecin Lagoon ( pl, Zalew Szczeciński, german: Stettiner Haff, since 1945 sometimes also ''Oderhaff'' (Oder lagoon) or ''Pommersches Haff'' (Pomeranian lagoon)) is a lagoon in the Oder estuary, shared by Germany and Poland. It is separated f ...

Puszcza Wkrzańska Puszcza is a Polish term for a large forest. It may also refer to the following villages: * Puszcza, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-central Poland) * Puszcza, Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland) * Puszcza, Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland) * ...

Forest and an old architecture in

and villages in the area, e.g.

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Church in

(15th century), the town hall in Nowe Warpno built in 1697 and

Black Madonna of Częstochowa The Black Madonna of Częstochowa ( pl, Czarna Madonna / Matka Boska Częstochowska; la, Imago thaumaturga Beatae Virginis Mariae Immaculatae Conceptae, in Claro Monte, lit=Miraculous Image of the Immaculate Conception, the Blessed Virgin Mary ...

Church in

(18th century).

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Nowe Warpno is bordered by the city of

Świnoujście Świnoujście (; german: Swinemünde ; nds, Swienemünn; all three meaning "Świna ivermouth"; csb, Swina) is a city and seaport on the Baltic Sea and Szczecin Lagoon, located in the extreme north-west of Poland. Situated mainly on the islands o ...

and by the gminas of

and Stepnica. It also borders

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Gallery

File:0904 Zalew Szczeciński GNW ZP.JPG,

File:0905 Puszcza Wkrzańska AltTur ZPL.JPG, Forest -

File:0905 K Św Huberta Karszno NW ZPL 1.JPG, Saint Hubertus Church in

- Karszno File:Brzozki.jpg, Brzózki

References

Polish official population figures 2006

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