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Gmina Popów 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
Kłobuck County
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Kłobuck County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. I ...
,
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
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. Its seat is the village of
Popów, which lies approximately north of
Kłobuck
Kłobuck is a town in southern Poland, with 12,934 inhabitants (2019). Located in the Silesian Voivodeship, about 15 km northwest of Częstochowa, it is the capital of Kłobuck County. Historically, Kłobuck belongs to Lesser Poland, and is l ...
and north 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 ...
.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2019 its total population is 5,868.
Villages
Gmina Popów contains the villages and settlements of
Annolesie,
Antonie,
Brzózki,
Dąbrowa,
Dąbrówka,
Dębie,
Florianów,
Kamieńszczyzna,
Kule,
Lelity,
Marianów,
Nowa Wieś,
Płaczki,
Popów,
Popów-Parcela,
Rębielice Królewskie,
Smolarze
Smolarze is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Popów, within Kłobuck County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately west of Popów, north of Kłobuck, and north of the regional capital Katowice
Ka ...
,
Wąsosz Dolny,
Wąsosz Górny,
Więcki,
Wrzosy,
Zawady and
Zbory.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Popów is bordered by the gminas of
Działoszyn
Działoszyn is a town in Pajęczno County, Łódź Voivodeship, in south-central Poland, with 5,627 inhabitants as of December 2021.
History
Działoszyn was granted town rights in 1421. It was a private town, administratively located in the W ...
,
Lipie,
Miedźno,
Nowa Brzeźnica
Nowa Brzeźnica is a village in Pajęczno County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Nowa Brzeźnica. It lies approximately south-east of Pajęczno and south of the regio ...
,
Opatów
Opatów (; ) is a town in southeastern Poland, within Opatów County in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (Holy Cross Province). Historically, it was part of a greater region called Lesser Poland. In 2012 the population was 6,658. Opatów is located ...
and
Pajęczno
Pajęczno is a town in Poland, in Łódź Voivodeship, about north of Częstochowa. It is the capital of Pajęczno County. Its population is 6,651 (2020). It is located in the Sieradz Land.
History
First mentioned in historical sources from 1 ...
.
References
Popow
Kłobuck County
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