__NOTOC__ Gmina Świątniki Górne 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

Kraków County __NOTOC__ Kraków County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 199 ...

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, in southern

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. Its seat is the town of

Świątniki Górne Świątniki Górne () is a town in southern Poland, situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship Lesser Poland Voivodeship ( ) is a voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship in southern Poland. It has an area of , and a population of 3,404,863 (2019). It ...

, which lies approximately south of the regional capital

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. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 8,619 (out of which the population of Świątniki Górne amounts to 2,101, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 6,518).

Villages

Apart from the town of Świątniki Górne, Gmina Świątniki Górne contains the villages and settlements of Ochojno, Olszowice, Rzeszotary, Rzeszotary Górne, Wrząsowice and Zalesie.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Świątniki Górne is bordered by the city of

and by the gminas of Mogilany, Siepraw and

Wieliczka Wieliczka (German: ''Groß Salze'', Latin: ''Magnum Sal'') is a historic town in southern Poland, situated within the Kraków metropolitan area in Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999. The town was initially founded in 1290 by Premislaus II of P ...

References

Polish official population figures 2006

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