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Gmina Staroźreby 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
Płock County
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Płock County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. ...
,
Masovian Voivodeship
Masovian Voivodeship or Mazowieckie Province (, ) and any variation thereof, is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, containing Poland's capital Warsaw.
Masovian Voivodeship has an area of and had a 2019 po ...
, in east-central
Poland
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. Its seat is the village of
Staroźreby, which lies approximately north-east of
Płock
Płock (pronounced ), officially the Ducal Capital City of Płock, is a city in central Poland, on the Vistula river, in the Masovian Voivodeship. According to the data provided by Central Statistical Office (Poland), GUS on 31 December 2021, the ...
and north-west of
Warsaw
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.
Areas of the administrative district are situated on the area of
Masovia
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Podlaskie
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land in the river basin of
Wkra
Wkra is a river in north-eastern Poland, a tributary of the Narew river, with a length of 255 kilometres and a basin area of 5,348 km2 - all within Poland.Vistula
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The Vistula rises at Barania Góra i ...
rivers. In the landscape flatlands are dominating and lightly wavy. They are reweighing
pine
A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae.
''World Flora Online'' accepts 134 species-rank taxa (119 species and 15 nothospecies) of pines as cu ...
,
alder
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and
birch
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en forests. In the local river basin
Płonka a natural-landscape fall-rope is found, on the land which is building one's nests
great crested grebe
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protected.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 7,576.
Villages
Gmina Staroźreby contains the villages and settlements of
Aleksandrowo,
Begno,
Bromierz,
Bromierzyk,
Brudzyno,
Bylino,
Dąbrusk,
Dłużniewo Duże,
Falęcin,
Góra,
Goszczyno,
Karwowo-Podgórne,
Kierz,
Krzywanice,
Krzywanice-Trojany,
Marychnów,
Mieczyno,
Mikołajewo,
Mrówczewo,
Nowa Góra,
Nowa Wieś,
Nowe Staroźreby,
Nowe Żochowo,
Nowy Bromierz,
Nowy Bromierzyk,
Opatówiec,
Ostrzykówek,
Piączyn,
Płonna,
Przeciszewo,
Przeciszewo-Kolonia,
Przedbórz,
Przedpełce,
Rogowo,
Rostkowo,
Rostkowo-Orszymowice,
Sarzyn,
Sędek,
Słomkowo,
Smardzewo,
Staroźreby,
Staroźreby-Hektary,
Stoplin,
Strzeszewo,
Szulbory,
Teodorowo,
Worowice-Wyroby,
Zdziar Mały,
Zdziar Wielki,
Zdziar-Las and
Żochowo Stare.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Staroźreby is bordered by the gminas of
Baboszewo
Baboszewo is a village in Płońsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Baboszewo. It lies approximately north-west of Płońsk and north-west of Warsaw
W ...
,
Bielsk,
Bulkowo,
Drobin,
Dzierzążnia,
Raciąż and
Radzanowo.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
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