Gmina Godów 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
Wodzisław County
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Wodzisław County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Czech border. It came into being on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local government ref ...
,
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 ...
. Its seat is the village of
Godów.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2019 its total population is 13,758.
Villages
The gmina contains the villages of
Godów,
Gołkowice,
Krostoszowice,
Łaziska,
Podbucze,
Skrbeńsko and
Skrzyszów.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Godów is bordered by the gminas of
Gorzyce,
Jastrzębie-Zdrój
Jastrzębie-Zdrój (, ) is a city in the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland with 86,632 inhabitants (2021). Its name comes from the Polish words ''jastrząb'' ("hawk") and ''zdrój'' ("spa" or "spring").
From 1861 until the 20th century, it w ...
,
Mszana and
Wodzisław Śląski
Wodzisław Śląski (; , , , , ) is a city in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland with 47,992 inhabitants (2019). It is the seat of Wodzisław County.
It was previously in Katowice Voivodeship (1975–1998); close to the border with the Czech ...
. It also borders the
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south ...
.
Twin towns – sister cities
Gmina Godów is
twinned with:
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Dolní Lutyně
Dolní Lutyně (, or ''Nieder Leuten'') is a municipality and village in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 5,300 inhabitants.
Administrative division
Dolní Lutyně consists of two municipal pa ...
, Czech Republic
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Petrovice u Karviné, Czech Republic
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Stare Miasto, Poland
References
External links
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Godow
Wodzisław County