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Gmina Margonin 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
Chodzież County
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Chodzież County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed ...
,
Greater Poland Voivodeship
Greater Poland Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland. The province is named after the region called Greater Poland (''Wielkopolska'' ). The modern province includes most of this historic re ...
, in west-central
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 town of
Margonin, which lies approximately east of
Chodzież
Chodzież () is a town in northwestern Poland with 17,976 inhabitants as of December 2021, seat of the Chodzież County in the Greater Poland Voivodeship.
Geography
Chodzież is located in the northern part of Greater Poland (western Poland), i ...
and north of the regional capital
Poznań
Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ...
.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 6,414 (out of which the population of Margonin amounts to 2,956, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 3,458).
Villages
Apart from the town of Margonin, Gmina Margonin contains the villages and settlements of
Adolfowo,
Bugaj,
Dębiniec,
Karolinka,
Klaudia,
Klotyldzin,
Kowalewo,
Lipiniec,
Lipiny,
Marcinek,
Margońska Wieś,
MÅ‚ynary,
Próchnowo,
Radwanki,
Studźce,
Sułaszewo,
Sypniewo,
Tereska,
Witkowice,
Zbyszewice and
Żoń.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Margonin is bordered by the gminas of
Budzyń,
Chodzież
Chodzież () is a town in northwestern Poland with 17,976 inhabitants as of December 2021, seat of the Chodzież County in the Greater Poland Voivodeship.
Geography
Chodzież is located in the northern part of Greater Poland (western Poland), i ...
,
Gołańcz,
Szamocin
Szamocin () is a town in Chodzież County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
History
''Szamoczino'' in the Piast-ruled Kingdom of Poland was first mentioned in a 1364 deed, although it surely existed earlier and was probably founded in the ...
and
WÄ…growiec
Wągrowiec () is a town in west-central Poland, from both Poznań and Bydgoszcz. Since the 18th century it has been the seat of a powiat. Administratively it is attached to the Greater Poland Voivodeship. The town is situated in the middle of th ...
.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
{{Chodzież County
Margonin
Chodzież County