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Gmina Węgierska Górka 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
Żywiec County
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Żywiec County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government r ...
,
Silesian Voivodeship
Silesian Voivodeship ( ) is an administrative province in southern Poland. With over 4.2 million residents and an area of 12,300 square kilometers, it is the second-most populous, and the most-densely populated and most-urbanized region of Poland ...
, in southern Poland. Its seat is the village of
Węgierska Górka
Węgierska Górka (Literally Polish for "Hungarian Hill") is a village in Żywiec County, Silesian Voivodeship, in the historic province of Lesser Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Węgierska Górka. It lie ...
, which lies approximately south-west of
Żywiec
Żywiec () is a town on the River Soła in southern Poland with 31,194 inhabitants (2019). It is situated within the Silesian Voivodeship, near the Żywiec Lake and Żywiec Landscape Park, one of the eight protected areas in the voivodeship. H ...
and south of the regional capital
Katowice
Katowice (, ) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Katowice urban area. As of 2021, Katowice has an official population of 286,960, and a resident population estimate of around 315,000. K ...
.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2019 its total population is 15,073.
Villages
Gmina Węgierska Górka contains the villages and settlements of
Cięcina
Cięcina is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Węgierska Górka, within Żywiec County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Żywiec and south of the regional capital Katowice.
It is one ...
,
Cisiec,
Węgierska Górka
Węgierska Górka (Literally Polish for "Hungarian Hill") is a village in Żywiec County, Silesian Voivodeship, in the historic province of Lesser Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Węgierska Górka. It lie ...
and
Żabnica.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Węgierska Górka is bordered by the gminas of
Jeleśnia
Jeleśnia is a village in Żywiec County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Jeleśnia. It lies approximately south-east of Żywiec and south of the regional capital Katow ...
,
Milówka,
Radziechowy-Wieprz and
Ujsoły
Ujsoły is a village in Żywiec County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland, close to the border with Slovakia. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Ujsoły. It lies approximately south of Żywiec, 38 km (2 ...
.
Twin towns – sister cities
Gmina Węgierska Górka is
twinned with:
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Lengyeltóti
Lengyeltóti is a town in Somogy county, Hungary.
The settlement is part of the Balatonboglár wine region.
Settings
The town can be found south from Fonyód, along the highway to Somogyvár, the old seat of the county. The highway went from t ...
, Hungary
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Pákozd
Pákozd is a village in Fejér county, Hungary. Set between Lake Velence and the granite dome of the Velence Hills, Pákozd covers of rolling loess and ancient crystalline outcrops just off the M7, 15 km north-west of Székesfehérvà ...
, Hungary
See also
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Battle of Węgierska Górka
The Battle of Węgierska Górka was a two-day-long defence of a Polish fortified area in south of Żywiec Region (Lesser Poland) during the opening stages of the Invasion of Poland of 1939.
Although the Polish position was not completed and onl ...
References
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Wegierska Gorka
Żywiec County