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Gmina Cieszanów is an urban-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
Lubaczów County
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Lubaczów County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish loc ...
,
Subcarpathian Voivodeship
Subcarpathian Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship, or province, in the southeastern corner of Poland. Its administrative capital and largest city is Rzeszów. Along with the Marshal, it is governed by the Subcarpathian Regional As ...
, in south-eastern
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 town of
Cieszanów, which lies approximately north of
Lubaczów
Lubaczów ( ''Liubachiv'') is a town in southeastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine, with 12,567 inhabitants
Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, it is the capital of Lubaczów County and is located northeast of Przemyśl.
Othe ...
and east of the regional capital
Rzeszów
Rzeszów ( , ) is the largest city in southeastern Poland. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River in the heartland of the Sandomierz Basin. Rzeszów is the capital of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship and the county seat, seat of Rzeszów C ...
.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 7,258 (out of which the population of Cieszanów amounts to 1,899, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 5,359).
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
Puszcza Solska Landscape Park.
Villages
Apart from the town of Cieszanów, Gmina Cieszanów contains the villages and settlements of
Chotylub,
Dąbrówka,
Dachnów,
Folwarki,
Gorajec
Gorajec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Cieszanów, within Lubaczów County, Subcarpathian, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Cieszanów, north-east of Lubaczów, and east of the regional capital Rz ...
,
Kowalówka,
Niemstów,
Nowe Sioło,
Nowy Lubliniec,
Stary Lubliniec and
Żuków.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Cieszanów is bordered by the gminas of
Horyniec-Zdrój and
Obsza
Obsza is a village in Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Obsza. It lies approximately south-east of Biłgoraj and south of the regional capital Lublin
...
.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
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