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Gmina Żukowo () 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
Kartuzy County,
Pomeranian Voivodeship
Pomeranian Voivodeship ( ; ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is Gdańsk.
The voivodeship was established on January 1, 1999, out of the former voivodeships of Gdańsk Voivo ...
, in northern
Poland
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. Its seat is the town of
Żukowo, which lies approximately east of
Kartuzy and west of the regional capital
Gdańsk
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...
.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 41,743 (out of which the population of Żukowo amounts to 8,135, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 33,608).
Villages
Apart from the town of Żukowo, Gmina Żukowo contains the villages and settlements of
Babi Dół,
Banino,
Barniewice,
Borkowo,
Borowiec,
Chwaszczyno,
Czaple,
Elżbietowo,
Glincz,
Łapino Kartuskie,
Leźno,
Lniska,
Małkowo,
Miszewko,
Miszewo,
Niestępowo,
Nowy Świat,
Otomino,
Pępowo,
Piaski,
Przyjaźń,
Rębiechowo,
Rutki,
Skrzeszewo Żukowskie,
Stara Piła,
Sulmin,
Tuchom
Tuchom is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Żukowo, within Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north of Żukowo, north-east of Kartuzy, and north-west of the regional capital Gd ...
,
Widlino and
Żukowo-Wieś.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Żukowo is bordered by the towns of
Gdańsk
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...
and
Gdynia
Gdynia is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With an estimated population of 257,000, it is the List of cities in Poland, 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in the Pomeranian Voivodeship after Gdańsk ...
, and by the gminas of
Kartuzy,
Kolbudy,
Przodkowo,
Przywidz,
Somonino and
Szemud.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
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Kashubia
Zukowo
Kartuzy County
Bilingual communes in Poland