__NOTOC__ Gmina Paczków is an urban-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

Nysa County __NOTOC__ Nysa County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Opole Voivodeship, south-western Poland, on the Czech border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reform ...

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, in south-western

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, on the

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border. Its seat is the town of Paczków, which lies approximately west of Nysa and west of the regional capital

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. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2019 its total population is 12,560.

Villages

Apart from the town of Paczków, Gmina Paczków contains the villages and settlements of

Dziewiętlice Dziewiętlice () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Paczków, within Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border. It lies approximately south-east of Paczków, west of Nysa, and south-w ...

, Frydrychów, Gościce, Kamienica, Kozielno, Lisie Kąty, Ścibórz, Stary Paczków, Trzeboszowice, Ujeździec, Unikowice and Wilamowa.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Paczków is bordered by the gminas of Kamieniec Ząbkowicki,

Otmuchów Otmuchów (pronounced: ; ) is a town in Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in southern Poland, with 6,581 inhabitants (2019). Etymology The city was mentioned for the first time as ''Otemochow'' in 1155. It was named in its Old Polish form ''Othmucho ...

Ziębice Ziębice () is a town in Ząbkowice Śląskie County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies on the Oława River, approximately east of Ząbkowice Śląskie and south of the regional capital Wrocław. It is the seat of t ...

and Złoty Stok. It also borders the

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Twin towns – sister cities

Gmina Paczków is twinned with: * Einbeck, Germany * Uzès, France

References

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