__NOTOC__ Gmina Włodowice 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

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

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 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 village of Włodowice, which lies approximately north of

Zawiercie Zawiercie () () is a town in southern Poland located in the Silesian Voivodeship with 49,334 inhabitants (2019). It is situated in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland near the source of the Warta River. The town lies near the historical region of Sil ...

and north-east 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 5,235.

Villages

Gmina Włodowice contains the villages and settlements of

Góra Włodowska Góra Włodowska is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Włodowice, within Zawiercie County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately north of Włodowice, north of Zawiercie, and north-east of the regional ...

, Hucisko, Kopaniny, Morsko, Parkoszowice, Rudniki, Rzędkowice,

Skałka Basilica of Saints Michael the Archangel and Stanislaus the Bishop, also known as Skałka, which means "a small rock" in Polish, is a church situated on a small outcrop in Kraków atop of which a Pauline monastery is also located. The crypt ...

, Włodowice and

Zdów Zdów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Włodowice, within Zawiercie County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Zawiercie and north-east of the regional capital Katowice Katowice ...

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Włodowice is bordered by the towns of

Myszków Myszków is a town in Poland, with 31,650 inhabitants (2019). Situated on the Warta river in the Silesian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Częstochowa Voivodeship (1975–1998), it is the capital of Myszków County. Myszków historicall ...

and

, and by the gminas of

Kroczyce Kroczyce is a village in Zawiercie County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Kroczyce. It lies approximately north-east of Zawiercie and north-east of the regional capita ...

Niegowa Niegowa is a village in Myszków County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Niegowa. It lies approximately north-east of Myszków and north-east of the regional capital Ka ...

and

Żarki Żarki () is a town in Myszków County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, with 4,556 inhabitants (2019). The history of Żarki dates back to the early 14th century, as the village was first mentioned in documents from the 1320s. For centuries, Żark ...

Twin towns – sister cities

Gmina Włodowice is twinned with: *

Lamerdingen Lamerdingen is a municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. The town has a municipal association with Buchloe Buchloe (; Swabian: ''Buechla'') is a community raised to town status in 1954, lying in Ostallgäu district in ...

, Germany *

Oravský Podzámok Oravský Podzámok () is a village and municipality in Dolný Kubín District in the Zilina Region of northern Slovakia. Orava Castle is located in the village. The village is located at 508 m (1677 ft) and has a population of 1331 i ...

, Slovakia

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