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Gmina Karczew 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
Otwock County
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Otwock County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. ...
,
Masovian Voivodeship
Masovian Voivodeship or Mazowieckie Province (, ) and any variation thereof, is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, containing Poland's capital Warsaw.
Masovian Voivodeship has an area of and had a 2019 po ...
, in east-central
Poland
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. Its seat is the town of
Karczew, which lies approximately south of
Otwock
Otwock (Yiddish: אָטוואָצק) is a city in the Masovian Voivodeship in east-central Poland, some south-east of Warsaw, with 43,895 inhabitants (2024). Otwock is part of the Warsaw metropolitan area. It is situated on the right bank of the ...
and south-east of
Warsaw
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.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 15,919 (out of which the population of Karczew amounts to 10,396, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 5,523).
The gmina contains part of the
protected area
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called
Masovian Landscape Park.
Villages
Apart from the town of Karczew, Gmina Karczew contains the villages and settlements of
Brzezinka,
Całowanie,
Glinki,
Janów,
Kępa Nadbrzeska,
Kosumce,
Łukówiec,
Nadbrzeż,
Ostrówek,
Ostrówiec,
Otwock Mały,
Otwock Wielki,
Piotrowice,
Sobiekursk,
Władysławów and
Wygoda.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Karczew is bordered by the town of
Otwock
Otwock (Yiddish: אָטוואָצק) is a city in the Masovian Voivodeship in east-central Poland, some south-east of Warsaw, with 43,895 inhabitants (2024). Otwock is part of the Warsaw metropolitan area. It is situated on the right bank of the ...
and by the gminas of
Celestynów,
Góra Kalwaria,
Konstancin-Jeziorna,
Sobienie-Jeziory and
Wiązowna.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
{{Otwock County
Karczew
Otwock County