__NOTOC__ Gmina Janowice Wielkie is a 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

Jelenia Góra County __NOTOC__ Karkonosze County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms pass ...

Lower Silesian Voivodeship Lower Silesian Voivodeship (, ) in southwestern Poland, is one of the 16 Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeships (provinces) into which Poland is divided. It covers an area of and has a total population of 2,899,986. It is one of the wealthiest ...

, in south-western

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

. Its seat is the village of

Janowice Wielkie Janowice Wielkie is a village in Karkonosze County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (''gmina'') called Gmina Janowice Wielkie. It lies approximately east of Jelenia Góra and we ...

, which lies approximately east of

Jelenia Góra Jelenia Góra (; ; ) is a historic city in southwestern Poland, within the historical region of Lower Silesia. Jelenia Góra is situated in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, close to the Karkonosze mountain range running along the Polish-Czech bo ...

and west of the regional capital

Wrocław Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...

. The gmina covers an area of ; as of 2019, its total population is 4,302.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Janowice Wielkie is bordered by the towns of

and

Wojcieszów Wojcieszów (; ) is a town in Złotoryja County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border. It is located in the historic region of Lower Silesia. It lies approximately south of Złotoryja, and west of the ...

and the gminas of

Bolków Bolków () is a town in Jawor County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Bolków and part of the '' Neisse-Nysa-Nisa'' Euroregion. Overview The town lies at ...

Jeżów Sudecki Jeżów Sudecki is a village in Karkonosze County, located in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship of southwestern Poland. It serves as the administrative seat of Gmina Jeżów Sudecki. Situated approximately north of Jelenia Góra and west of the re ...

Kamienna Góra Kamienna Góra (, ) is a town in south-western Poland with 18,235 inhabitants (2023). It is the seat of Kamienna Góra County, and also of the rural district called Gmina Kamienna Góra, although it is not part of the territory of the latter (t ...

Marciszów Marciszów is a village in Kamienna Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Marciszów. It lies approximately north-west of Kamienna Góra and south-we ...

Mysłakowice Mysłakowice is a village in Karkonosze County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Mysłakowice. It lies approximately south-east of Jelenia Góra and west of ...

and

Świerzawa Świerzawa (; formerly , ) is a town in Złotoryja County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Świerzawa. It lies on the Kaczawa River, approximately south of ...

Villages

The gmina contains the villages of

, Komarno, Miedzianka, Mniszków, Radomierz and Trzcińsko.

Twin towns – sister cities

Gmina Janowice Wielkie is twinned with: *

Bruchhausen-Vilsen Bruchhausen-Vilsen is a municipality in the Diepholz district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated southeast of Bremen. The nearby communities of Berxen, Bruchhöfen, Bruchmühlen, Dille, Gehlbergen, Heiligenberg, Homfeld, Nenndorf, Rietha ...

, Germany * Rádlo, Czech Republic

References

{{Jelenia Góra County

Karkonosze County