Gmina Głubczyce 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
Głubczyce County
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Głubczyce County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Opole Voivodeship, south-western Poland, on the Czech border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government ...
,
Opole Voivodeship
Opole Voivodeship ( , , ), is the smallest and least populated voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) of Poland. The province's name derives from that of the region's capital and largest city, Opole. It is part of Silesia. A relatively lar ...
, in south-western
Poland
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. Its seat is the town of
Głubczyce, which lies approximately south of the regional capital
Opole
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.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2007 its total population is 22,316.
Geography
Gmina Głubczyce is located in the Głubczyce Hook () partly on the
Głubczyce Plateau (; a part of the
Silesian Lowlands) and partly in the
Opawskie Mountains (a part of the
Eastern Sudeten). Gmina Głubczyce is located in the
Oder
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River Basin (rivers: Cyna/Psina, Opawa, Opawica, Stradunia, Troja).
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Głubczyce is bordered by the gminas of
Baborów,
Branice,
Głogówek,
Kietrz and
Pawłowiczki and by the
Czech
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** Czech language
** Czechs, the people of the area
** Czech culture
** Czech cuisine
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*Czech (surnam ...
obeces of
Krnov,
Město Albrechtice,
Slezské Rudoltice,
Rusín,
Bohušov and
Osoblaha.
Twin towns – sister cities
Gmina Głubczyce is
twinned with:
*
Krnov, Czech Republic (2001)
*
Město Albrechtice, Czech Republic (2001)
*
Rockenhausen, Germany (2003)
*
Rusín, Czech Republic (2000)
*
Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre, France (2002)
*
Zbarazh, Ukraine (2005)
Gallery
File:Lisięcice, kostelní věž.jpg, Church tower in Lisięcice
File:Głubczyce-Sady, zahrady.jpg, Gardens in Głubczyce-Sady
File:2012-04 Gmina Głubczyce 10.jpg, Wayside shrines
See also
*
Dobrogostów
*
Głubczyce-Las
*
Klisinko
*
Marysieńka, Opole Voivodeship
References
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Glubczyce
Głubczyce County