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Poland's administrative divisions, as of 1 January 2020, with voivodeship, county, gmina and towns in urban-rural gminas shown. Poland has a three-tier administrative division since 1999. On the first level, Poland is divided into 16 voivodeships (Polish: województwa , singular – województwo ).
The gmina (Polish:, plural gminy) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. [1] As of 1 January 2019 [update] , there were 2,477 gminy throughout the country, encompassing over 43,000 villages.
All municipalities in Poland are governed regardless of their type under the mandatory mayor–council government system. Executive power in a rural gmina is exercised by a wójt, while the homologue in municipalities containing cities or towns is called accordingly either a city mayor (prezydent miasta) or a town mayor (burmistrz), all of them elected by a two-round direct election, while the ...
Major cities normally have the status of both gmina and powiat. Poland currently has 16 voivodeships, 380 powiats (including 66 cities with powiat status), and 2,478 gminas. [1] The current system was introduced pursuant to a series of acts passed by the Polish parliament in 1998, and came into effect on 1 January 1999.
This list category contains Wikipedia articles about rural and urban-rural gminas (administrative districts) in Poland. A corresponding list of topics can be found at List of Polish gminas. For urban gminas and other towns, see Category:Cities and towns in Poland. For powiats (larger administrative units), see Category:Land counties of Poland.
Gmina Studzienice: The municipal flag was established by Resolution No XXVIII/248/2010 of 9 March 2010. It is a rectangular flag with proportions of 5:8, divided into three horizontal stripes: two yellow and one green in the ratio 3:14:3. In the central part of the flag the municipal coat of arms is placed. [9] [10] Gmina Trzebielino
The bilingual status of gminas (municipalities) in Poland is regulated by the Act of 6 January 2005 on National and Ethnic Minorities and on the Regional Languages, which permits certain gminas with significant linguistic minorities to introduce a second, auxiliary language to be used in official contexts alongside Polish.
The following is an alphabetical list of all 380 county-level entities in Poland.. A county or powiat (pronounced povyat, /pɔv.jät/) is the second level of Polish administrative division, between the voivodeship (provinces) and the gmina (municipalities or communes; plural "gminy").