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Gmina Ujazd, German Gemeinde Ujest 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
Strzelce County
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Strzelce 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 ...
,
Opole Voivodeship
Opole Voivodeship ( , , ), is the smallest and least populated voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) of Poland. The province's name derives from that of the region's capital and largest city, Opole. It is part of Silesia. A relatively lar ...
, in south-western
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 the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
. Its seat is the town of
Ujazd (Ujest), which lies approximately south-east of
Strzelce Opolskie
Strzelce Opolskie () is a town in southern Poland with 17,900 inhabitants (2019), situated in the Opole Voivodeship. It is the capital of Strzelce County.
Etymology
The name of the town is of Polish origin and comes from the old Polish word ''s ...
and south-east of the regional capital
Opole
Opole (; ; ; ) is a city located in southern Poland on the Oder River and the historical capital of Upper Silesia. With a population of approximately 127,387 as of the 2021 census, it is the capital of Opole Voivodeship (province) and the seat of ...
.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2019 its total population is 6,418. Since 2006 the commune, like much of the area, has been officially bilingual in German and Polish, a large German population having remained in the area after it was transferred to Polish control.
Villages
The commune contains the villages and settlements of:
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Ujazd
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Balcarzowice
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Buczek
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Grzeboszowice
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Jaryszów
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Klucz
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Kolonia Jaryszów
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Komorniki
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Kopanina
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Księży Las
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Niezdrowice
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Nogowczyce
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Olszowa
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Sieroniowice
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Stary Ujazd
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Wesołów
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Wydzierów
Wydzierów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ujazd, within Strzelce County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Ujazd, south-east of Strzelce Opolskie, and south-east of the regio ...
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Zimna Wódka
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Ujazd is bordered by the town of
Kędzierzyn-Koźle
Kędzierzyn-Koźle () is a city in south-western Poland, the administrative center of Kędzierzyn-Koźle County. With 58,899 inhabitants as of 2021, it is the second most-populous city in the Opole Voivodeship.
Founded from the merger of the prev ...
and by the gminas of
Leśnica,
Rudziniec,
Strzelce Opolskie
Strzelce Opolskie () is a town in southern Poland with 17,900 inhabitants (2019), situated in the Opole Voivodeship. It is the capital of Strzelce County.
Etymology
The name of the town is of Polish origin and comes from the old Polish word ''s ...
and
Toszek
Toszek () is a small town in southern Poland. It is situated within Gliwice County in the Silesian Voivodeship (province), and its population was estimated at 3,600 inhabitants in 2019. It is situated on the Toszecki Potok River, a tributary of K ...
.
Twin towns – sister cities
Gmina Ujazd is
twinned with:
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Bad Lobenstein
Bad Lobenstein is a spa town in the Saale-Orla-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany with a population of about 6,000 inhabitants. Until 2005, the town was named Lobenstein.
The town, grouped round a rock, upon which stand the ruins of an old c ...
, Germany
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Břidličná
Břidličná (; until 1950 Frýdlant nad Moravicí, ) is a town in Bruntál District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,900 inhabitants.
Administrative division
Břidličná consists of three municipal parts (in ...
, Czech Republic
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Nusplingen, Germany
Gallery
File:Zniszczone przez tornado lasy nieopodal Nogawczyc - panoramio.jpg, Forest
File:Grzeboszowice, zahrada.jpg, Garden in Grzeboszowice
File:Sieroniowice, zvonice.jpg, Bell tower in Sieroniowice
References
{{Strzelce County
Ujazd
Bilingual communes in Poland