Gmina Leśniowice 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

Chełm County Chełm County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms pas ...

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, in eastern

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. Its seat is the village of Leśniowice, which lies approximately south of

Chełm Chełm (; ; ) is a city in eastern Poland in the Lublin Voivodeship with 60,231 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is located to the south-east of Lublin, north of Zamość and south of Biała Podlaska, some from the border with Ukraine. The ...

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 3,996.

Villages

Gmina Leśniowice contains the villages and settlements of Alojzów, Dębina, Horodysko, Janówka, Kasiłan, Kumów Majoracki,

Kumów Plebański Kumów Plebański is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Leśniowice, within Chełm County, Lublin Voivodeship Lublin Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in the southeastern part ...

, Leśniowice, Leśniowice-Kolonia, Majdan Leśniowski, Nowy Folwark, Plisków, Plisków-Kolonia, Politówka, Poniatówka, Rakołupy,

Rakołupy Duże Rakołupy Duże is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Leśniowice, within Chełm County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Ba ...

, Rakołupy Małe, Sarniak, Sielec, Teresin, Wierzbica and Wygnańce.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Leśniowice is bordered by the gminas of

, Kamień,

Kraśniczyn Kraśniczyn is a village in Krasnystaw County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Kraśniczyn. It lies approximately south-east of Krasnystaw and south-east of the regional c ...

Siennica Różana Siennica Różana is a village in Krasnystaw County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Siennica Różana. It lies approximately east of Krasnystaw and south-east of the reg ...

, Wojsławice and Żmudź.

References

Polish official population figures 2006
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