Gmina Drelów 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

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, in eastern

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. Its seat is the village of

Drelów Drelów is a village in Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Drelów. It lies approximately south-west of Biała Podlaska and north of the regional cap ...

, which lies approximately south-west of

Biała Podlaska Biała Podlaska (; ) is a city in the Lublin Voivodeship in eastern Poland with 56,498 inhabitants It is the capital of Biała Podlaska County, although the city is not part of the county (it constitutes a separate city county). The city lies on ...

and north of the regional capital

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. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 5,535 (5,499 in 2014). Drelów was the site of the discovery of the first known shard of

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Drelów, named after the gmina.

Villages

Gmina Drelów contains the villages and settlements of Aleksandrówka, Danówka, Dołha,

, Kwasówka, Leszczanka, Łózki, Pereszczówka, Przechodzisko, Sokule, Strzyżówka, Szachy, Szóstka, Witoroż, Wólka Łózecka, Worsy, Zahajki and Żerocin.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Drelów is bordered by the town of

Międzyrzec Podlaski Międzyrzec Podlaski () is a town in Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, with a population of 17,102 inhabitants . The total area of the town is . Międzyrzec is located in the historic region of Podlachia, near the Krzna river, n ...

and by the gminas of

, Kąkolewnica Wschodnia, Komarówka Podlaska, Łomazy,

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and Wohyń.

References

External links

Polish official population figures 2006
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