__NOTOC__ Gmina Celestynów 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

Otwock County __NOTOC__ Otwock County () 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 reforms passed in 1998. ...

Masovian Voivodeship Masovian Voivodeship or Mazowieckie Province (, ) and any variation thereof, is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, containing Poland's capital Warsaw. Masovian Voivodeship has an area of and had a 2019 po ...

, in east-central

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 ...

. Its seat is the village of Celestynów, which lies approximately south-east of

Otwock Otwock (Yiddish: אָטוואָצק) is a city in the Masovian Voivodeship in east-central Poland, some south-east of Warsaw, with 43,895 inhabitants (2024). Otwock is part of the Warsaw metropolitan area. It is situated on the right bank of the ...

and south-east of

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 11,032. 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 Masovian Landscape Park.

Villages

Gmina Celestynów contains the villages and settlements of Celestynów, Dąbrówka, Dyzin, Glina, Jatne, Lasek, Ostrów, Ostrowik,

Podbiel Podbiel () is a village and municipality in Tvrdošín District in the Žilina Region of northern Slovakia. It contains a beautiful set of traditional wooden cottages, which have been declared a folk architecture preservation area. History In ...

, Pogorzel, Ponurzyca, Regut, Stara Wieś, Tabor and Zabieżki.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Celestynów is bordered by the town of

and by the gminas of

Karczew Karczew (; ''Kartshev'') is a town in Otwock County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland. It is the seat of the urban-rural administrative district of Gmina Karczew, with 10,271 inhabitants (2010). Karczew is a part of the Warsaw metropolitan area, Wars ...

, Kołbiel,

Osieck Osieck is a town in Otwock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Osieck. It lies approximately south-east of Otwock and south-east of Warsaw. History Osieck was ...

, Sobienie-Jeziory and Wiązowna.

References

Polish official population figures 2006

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