__NOTOC__ Gmina Gorzyce 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 __NOTOC__ 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 ...

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, in southern

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, on the

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border. Its seat is the village of Gorzyce, which lies approximately south-west of

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 ...

and south-west of the regional capital

Katowice Katowice (, ) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Katowice urban area. As of 2021, Katowice has an official population of 286,960, and a resident population estimate of around 315,000. K ...

. It is close to where the A1 motorway crosses the border into the Czech Republic to/from Poland The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2019 its total population is 21,285.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Gorzyce is bordered by the town of

and by the gminas of Godów, Krzyżanowice and Lubomia. It also borders the

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Twin towns – sister cities

Gmina Gorzyce is twinned with: *

Bohumín Bohumín (; , ) is a town in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 20,000 inhabitants. Administrative division Bohumín consists of seven municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 202 ...

, Czech Republic *

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 *

Kamianets-Podilskyi Kamianets-Podilskyi (, ; ) is a city on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine, western Ukraine, to the north-east of Chernivtsi. Formerly the administrative center of Khmelnytskyi Oblast, the city is now the administrative center of Kamianets ...

, Ukraine *

Stará Bystrica Stará Bystrica () is a village and municipality in Čadca District in the Žilina Region of Northern Slovakia. It is the home to one of the world's youngest astronomical clocks, completed in 2009.

, Slovakia

References

External links

Official Gmina Gorzyce website
Gorzyce Gmina Gorzyce {{Wodzisław-geo-stub

Neighbouring gminas

Twin towns – sister cities

See also

References

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