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Gmina Boronów 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
Lubliniec County
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Lubliniec County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. ...
,
Silesian Voivodeship
Silesian Voivodeship ( ) is an administrative province in southern Poland. With over 4.2 million residents and an area of 12,300 square kilometers, it is the second-most populous, and the most-densely populated and most-urbanized region of Poland ...
, in southern
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
. It was formed in 1993, having previously been part of
Gmina Herby. Its seat is the village of
Boronów, which lies approximately east of
Lubliniec
Lubliniec (, ; Silesian language, Silesian: ''Lublini'c'') is a town in southern Poland with 23,784 inhabitants (2019). It is the capital of Lubliniec County, part of Silesian Voivodeship.
Geography
Lubliniec is situated in the north of the his ...
and north of the regional capital
Katowice
Katowice (, ) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Katowice urban area. As of 2021, Katowice has an official population of 286,960, and a resident population estimate of around 315,000. K ...
.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2019 its total population is 3,416.
The gmina contains part of the
protected area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural or cultural values. Protected areas are those areas in which human presence or the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. firewood ...
called
Upper Liswarta Forests Landscape Park.
Villages
Gmina Boronów contains the villages and settlements of
Boronów,
Cielec,
Dębowa Góra,
Doły,
Grojec,
Hucisko,
Sitki,
Szklana Huta and
Zumpy.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Boronów is bordered by the gminas of
Herby,
Konopiska and
Koszęcin.
Twin towns – sister cities
Gmina Boronów is
twinned with:
*
Komorní Lhotka, Czech Republic
References
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Boronow
Lubliniec County