__NOTOC__ Gmina Nowy Targ 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

Nowy Targ County Nowy Targ County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government refor ...

Lesser Poland Voivodeship Lesser Poland Voivodeship ( ) is a voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship in southern Poland. It has an area of , and a population of 3,404,863 (2019). Its capital and largest city is Kraków. The province's name recalls the traditional name of a h ...

, in southern

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

Nowy Targ Nowy Targ (Officially: ''Royal Free city of Nowy Targ'', Yiddish: ''Naymark'', Gorals, Goral dialect: ''Nowy Torg'' ) is a town in southern Poland, in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. It is located in the Orava-Nowy Targ Basin at the foot of the Go ...

, although the town itself is not part of the territory of the gmina. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 22,070.

Villages

Gmina Nowy Targ contains the villages and settlements of Dębno, Długopole, Dursztyn, Gronków, Harklowa, Klikuszowa,

Knurów Knurów (; ) is a city near Katowice in Silesia, southern Poland. Knurów is an outer city of the Metropolis GZM, a metropolis with a population of two million. Knurów is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Bierawka River, a tributary of t ...

, Krauszów, Krempachy, Lasek, Łopuszna, Ludźmierz, Morawczyna, Nowa Biała, Obidowa, Ostrowsko, Pyzówka, Rogoźnik, Szlembark, Trute and Waksmund.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Nowy Targ is bordered by the town of

and by the gminas of

Bukowina Tatrzańska Bukowina Tatrzańska , () is a village in Tatra County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland, close to the border with Slovakia. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Bukowina Tatrzańska. It lies approximatel ...

, Czarny Dunajec,

Czorsztyn Czorsztyn (German: ''Schorstin'') is a village in Poland, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Nowy Targ County. The village lies in Pieniny, the mountain range on the current Polish- Slovak border. It is famous for the ruins of a 14th-17th-century c ...

, Kamienica, Łapsze Niżne, Niedźwiedź, Ochotnica Dolna, Raba Wyżna, Rabka-Zdrój and Szaflary.

References

Polish official population figures 2006

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Nowy Targ County