__NOTOC__ Gmina Bakałarzewo is a rural

gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' ) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,479 gminy throughout the country, encompassing over 43,000 villages. 940 gminy include cities and tow ...

(administrative district) in

Suwałki County __NOTOC__ Suwałki County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland, on the Lithuanian border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local gov ...

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, in north-eastern

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. Its seat is the village of

Bakałarzewo Bakałarzewo (; ) is a village in Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Bakałarzewo. It lies approximately west of Suwałki and north of the regional ...

, which lies approximately west of

Suwałki Suwałki (; ; or סוּוואַלק) is a city in northeastern Poland with a population of 69,206 (2021). It is the capital of Suwałki County and one of the most important centers of commerce in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. A relatively young ci ...

and north of the regional capital

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. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 3,053.

Villages

Gmina Bakałarzewo contains the villages and settlements of Aleksandrowo,

, Gębalówka, Góra, Kamionka Poprzeczna, Karasiewo, Klonowa Góra, Konopki, Kotowina, Malinówka, Maryna, Matłak, Nieszki, Nowa Kamionka, Nowa Wieś, Nowy Dwór, Nowy Skazdub, Orłowo, Płociczno,

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, Podrabalina, Podwólczanka, Sadłowina, Słupie, Sokołowo, Stara Chmielówka, Stara Kamionka, Stary Skazdub, Suchorzec, Wólka, Wólka-Folwark, Zajączkowo, Zajączkowo-Folwark and Zdręby.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Bakałarzewo is bordered by the gminas of Filipów,

Olecko Olecko (former since 1560, colloquially also , since 1928) is a town in northeastern Poland. It is in Masuria, near Ełk and Suwałki, in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. It is at the mouth of the Lega (river), Lega river which flows into the G ...

, Raczki,

and Wieliczki.

Sister cities

Attert Attert (; ; ) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium. On 1 January 2007 the municipality, which covers 70.94 km2, had 4,802 inhabitants, giving a population density of 67.7 inhabitants per km2. The m ...

(

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) since 2005

References

Polish official population figures 2006
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