__NOTOC__ Gmina Czyże () 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

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

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, in north-eastern

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. Its seat is the village of

Czyże Czyże (; , ''Čyžy''; Podlachian: ''Čyžê'') is a village in Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Czyże. It lies approximately north-west of Haj ...

, which lies approximately north-west of

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and south-east of the regional capital

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. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 2,528. It is one of five Polish/

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bilingual Gmina in Podlaskie Voivodeship regulated by the ''Act of 6 January 2005 on National and Ethnic Minorities and on the Regional Languages'', which permits certain gminas with significant linguistic minorities to introduce a second, auxiliary language to be used in official contexts alongside

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.Dz. U. z 2005 r. Nr 17, poz. 141

Villages

Gmina Czyże contains the villages and settlements of Bujakowszczyzna,

, Hrabniak, Hukowicze, Kamień, Klejniki, Kojły, Kuraszewo,

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, Leniewo, Leszczyny, Łuszcze, Maksymowszczyzna, Morze, Osówka, Podrzeczany, Podwieżanka, Rakowicze, Sapowo, Szostakowo,

Wieżanka Wieżanka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czyże, within Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship Podlaskie Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship in northeastern Poland. The name of the voivodeship refers ...

, Wólka and Zbucz.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Czyże is bordered by the gminas of

Bielsk Podlaski Bielsk Podlaski (, , ) is a town in eastern Poland, within Bielsk County in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. As of December 2021, the town has a population of 24,883. Geography Bielsk Podlaski is located in the geographical region of Europe known as ...

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and Orla.

References

Polish official population figures 2006
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