__NOTOC__ Gmina Radłów, German Gemeinde Radlau 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

Olesno County __NOTOC__ Olesno County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Opole Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. I ...

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, in south-western

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. Its seat is the village of Radłów, which lies approximately north-east of

Olesno Olesno is a town in Opole Voivodeship, Opole Voivodship, in southern Poland, about north-east of the city of Opole. It is the capital of Olesno County and seat of the Gmina Olesno, Opole Voivodeship, Gmina Olesno. History The area near the anci ...

and north-east of the regional capital

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. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2019 its total population is 4,308. In 2008 the district was the first in Poland to put up bilingual Polish

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signs for town names. These signs would celebrate the multicultural past of the region, which was prior to 1945 part of Germany and as of 2008 28 percent of the inhabitants were German origin.

Villages

The commune contains the villages and settlements of: * Radłów * Biskupice * Biskupskie Drogi * Kolonia Biskupska * Kościeliska * Ligota Oleska * Nowe Karmonki * Psurów * Stare Karmonki * Sternalice * Wichrów * Wolęcin

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Radłów is bordered by the gminas of

Gorzów Śląski Gorzów Śląski (; ) is a town in Olesno County, Opole Voivodeship, Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in ...

Krzepice Krzepice is a Polish town near Częstochowa, in Kłobuck County, Silesian Voivodeship, in northwestern Lesser Poland. It is near the historic border of Lesser Poland and Silesia, which goes along the Liswarta river. A few kilometers to the nort ...

, Praszka and Rudniki.

References

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