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Gmina Rajcza 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
Żywiec County
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Żywiec County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government r ...
,
Silesian Voivodeship
Silesian Voivodeship ( ) is an administrative province in southern Poland. With over 4.2 million residents and an area of 12,300 square kilometers, it is the second-most populous, and the most-densely populated and most-urbanized region of Poland ...
, in southern Poland, on the Slovak border. Its seat is the village of
Rajcza, which lies approximately south of
Żywiec
Żywiec () is a town on the River Soła in southern Poland with 31,194 inhabitants (2019). It is situated within the Silesian Voivodeship, near the Żywiec Lake and Żywiec Landscape Park, one of the eight protected areas in the voivodeship. H ...
and south of the regional capital
Katowice
Katowice (, ) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Katowice urban area. As of 2021, Katowice has an official population of 286,960, and a resident population estimate of around 315,000. K ...
.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2019 its total population is 8,835.
Villages
Gmina Rajcza contains the villages and settlements of
Rajcza,
Rycerka Dolna,
Rycerka Górna,
Sól,
Sól-Kiczora and
Zwardoń.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Rajcza is bordered by the gminas of
Istebna,
Milówka and
Ujsoły. It also borders Slovakia.
Twin towns – sister cities
Gmina Rajcza is
twinned with:
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Košařiska, Czech Republic
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Łobez
Łobez (; ) is a town on the river Rega (river), Rega in northwestern Poland, within the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It is the capital of Łobez County, and has a population of 10,066 (2019).
The name
The name Łobez comes from the Old Polis ...
, Poland
References
{{Żywiec County
Rajcza
Żywiec County