__NOTOC__ Gmina Słońsk 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

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

Lubusz Voivodeship Lubusz Voivodeship ( ) is a voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in western Poland with a population of 972,140. Its regional capitals are Gorzów Wielkopolski and Zielona Góra. The region is characterized by a landscape of forests, lake ...

, in western

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. Its seat is the village of

Słońsk Słońsk () is a village in Sulęcin County of the Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. It is located east of the border crossing with Germany along national road DK22. The village lies about 25 kilometres (or 16 miles) northwest of Sulęcin and ...

, which lies approximately north-west of

Sulęcin Sulęcin (; ) is a town in western Poland with 10,117 inhabitants (2019), the capital of Sulecin County, since 1999 in Lubusz Voivodeship. Geography Sulęcin is located in the center of Lubusz Voivodeship (Lubuskie province), by the river Postomi ...

and south-west of

Gorzów Wielkopolski Gorzów Wielkopolski (), often abbreviated to Gorzów Wlkp. or simply Gorzów (formerly ), is a city in Geography of Poland, western Poland, located on the Warta, Warta River. It is one of the two principal cities and seats of the Lubusz Voivodes ...

. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2019 its total population is 4,755.

Villages

Gmina Słońsk contains the villages and settlements of Budzigniew, Chartów, Głuchowo, Grodzisk, Jamno, Lemierzyce, Lemierzycko, Ownice, Polne, Przyborów and

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Słońsk is bordered by the town of

Kostrzyn nad Odrą Kostrzyn nad Odrą (translated literally as Kostrzyn upon the Oder; ; ) is a town in Gorzów County, Lubusz Voivodeship in western Poland, on the border with Germany. Geography The town is situated within the historic Lubusz Land (''Ziemia Lubus ...

and by the gminas of Górzyca,

Krzeszyce Krzeszyce is a village in Sulęcin County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Krzeszyce. It lies approximately north-west of Sulęcin and south-west of Gorzów Wielkopols ...

, Ośno Lubuskie and

Witnica Witnica () is a town in western Poland, situated in the Lubusz Voivodeship, with 6,747 inhabitants (2019). The town is located in the historic Lubusz Land. The town's name derives from the Polish words ''wić'' or ''witka'', meaning a willow twi ...

Twin towns – sister cities

Gmina Słońsk is twinned with: *

Amt Schlaubetal Amt Schlaubetal is an ''Amt (country subdivision), Amt'' ("collective municipality") in the district of Oder-Spree, in Brandenburg, Germany. Its seat is in Müllrose. The ''Amt'' Schlaubetal consists of the following municipalities: #Grunow-Dammen ...

, Germany

References

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