Gmina Tarnogród 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

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, in eastern

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. Its seat is the town of

Tarnogród Tarnogród (; ; , or , ''Tarnohorod'') is a town in Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. It has a population of 3,399 (2006). Tarnogród is the southernmost town of the voivodeship; the distance to Lublin is 110 kilometres, while the dis ...

, which lies approximately south of

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and south of the regional capital

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. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 6,860 (out of which the population of Tarnogród amounts to 3,372, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 3,488).

Villages

Apart from the town of Tarnogród, Gmina Tarnogród contains the villages and settlements of Bolesławin, Cichy, Jamieńszczyzna, Kolonia Różaniecka, Luchów Dolny, Luchów Górny,

Pierogowiec Pierogowiec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Tarnogród, within Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately south of Tarnogród, south of Biłgoraj, and south of the regional capital Lublin ...

, Popówka, Różaniec, Różaniec-Szkoła, Wola Różaniecka and Zagrody.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Tarnogród is bordered by the gminas of Adamówka, Biszcza,

Księżpol Księżpol is a village in Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Księżpol. It lies approximately south of Biłgoraj and south of the regional capital Lublin ...

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, Łukowa,

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and Stary Dzików.

References

Polish official population figures 2006
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