Giby ( lt, Gibai), is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

Sejny County __NOTOC__ Sejny County ( pl, powiat sejneński) a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Podlaskie Voivodeship, in the extreme north-east of Poland, on the border with Lithuania and Belarus. It came into being on Janua ...

Podlaskie Voivodeship Podlaskie Voivodeship or Podlasie Province ( pl, Województwo podlaskie, ) is a voivodeship (province) in northeastern Poland. The name of the province and its territory correspond to the historic region of Podlachia. The capital and largest cit ...

, in north-eastern

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, close to the borders with

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by ...

and Lithuania. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Giby. It lies approximately south of

Sejny Sejny ( lt, Seinai) is a town in north-eastern Poland and the capital of Sejny County, in Podlaskie Voivodeship, close to the northern border with Lithuania and Belarus. It is located in the eastern part of the Suwałki Lake Area ( pl, Pojezier ...

and north of the regional capital

Białystok Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Białystok is located in the Białystok Up ...

. The village has an approximate population of 1,000. It was established in 1594. Today's Catholic church of St. Anne (1912) originally served

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in Pogorzelec village, from where it was moved to Giby in 1982. File:Giby - urząd gminy.jpg File:Giby - krzyż.jpg File:DK16 - Giby.jpg File:Giby - oddział przedszkolny-1.jpg File:Giby krzyż 18.07.2009 p.jpg File:Gmina Giby.jpg File:Poland Giby St.Ann church fragment.JPG File:Poland Giby St.Ann church chapel1.JPG

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Villages in Sejny County {{coord, 54, 02, N, 23, 22, E, region:PL_type:city, display=title

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