__NOTOC__ Gmina Głuszyca is an urban-rural

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(administrative district) in

Wałbrzych County __NOTOC__ Wałbrzych County (; ) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed ...

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, in south-western

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, on the

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border. Its seat is the town of Głuszyca, which lies approximately south-east of

Wałbrzych Wałbrzych (; ; or ''Walmbrich''; or ) is a city located in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in southwestern Poland, seat of Wałbrzych County. Wałbrzych lies approximately southwest of the voivodeship capital Wrocław and about from the Czec ...

, and south-west of the regional capital

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. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2019 its total population is 8,631.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Głuszyca is bordered by the town of Jedlina-Zdrój and the gminas of Mieroszów,

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and Walim. It also borders the

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Villages

Apart from the town of Głuszyca, the gmina contains the villages of Głuszyca Górna, Grzmiąca, Kolce, Łomnica and Sierpnica.

References

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