Wicko ( csb, Wickò, German ''Vietzig'') 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 ...
in
Lębork County
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Lębork County ( csb, Lãbòrsczi kréz, pl, powiat lęborski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland, on the Baltic coast. It came into being on January 1, 1999, ...
,
Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the
gmina (administrative district) called
Gmina Wicko
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Gmina Wicko is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Lębork County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Wicko, which lies approximately north-west of Lębork and north-west of the regional capit ...
.
It lies approximately north-west of
Lębork
Lębork (; csb, Lãbòrg; formerly german: Lauenburg in Pommern) is a town of 37,000 people on the Łeba River, Łeba and Okalica rivers in the Gdańsk Pomerania region in northern Poland. It is the capital of Lębork County in Pomeranian Voivode ...
and north-west of the regional capital
Gdańsk.
Before 1945 the area of
Farther Pomerania, where the village is located, was part of
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
. For details of the history of the region, see ''
History of Pomerania''.
The village has a population of 690.
References
Villages in Lębork County
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