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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 ...
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 ).
915 names of cities and towns (miasto); see list of cities and towns in Poland for their subtypes, 6,710 names of parts of cities or towns (część miasta) , usually quarters ( dzielnica ) or neighbourhoods ( osiedle ), sometimes also settlements ( osada miejska ) or colonies ( kolonia miejska ); other locally defined types are also allowed in ...
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.
Villages in Lesser Poland Voivodeship (19 C) Villages in Łódź Voivodeship (21 C) Villages in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (26 C) Villages in Lublin Voivodeship (20 C)
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.
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, there were 2,477 gminy throughout the country, encompassing over 43,000 villages. 940 gminy include cities and towns, with 322 among them constituting an independent urban gmina (Polish: gmina miejska) consisting solely of a standalone town or one ...
Pruchnik is a rural town in Jarosław County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district called Gmina Pruchnik. It lies approximately 17 kilometres (11 mi) south-west of Jarosław and 39 km (24 mi) east of the regional capital Rzeszów. [1] The town has a population of 3,519.