Gmina Gniew is an urban-rural gmina

Gmina

The gmina is the principal unit of administrative division of Poland at its lowest uniform level. It is often translated as "commune" or "municipality." As of 2010 there were 2,479 gminas throughout the country...

 (administrative district) in Tczew County

Tczew County

Tczew County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Tczew, which lies south of...

, Pomeranian Voivodeship

Pomeranian Voivodeship

Pomeranian Voivodeship, or Pomerania Province , is a voivodeship, or province, in north-central Poland. It comprises most of Pomerelia , as well as an area east of the Vistula River...

, in northern Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. Its seat is the town of Gniew

Gniew

Gniew is a town situated on the left bank of the Vistula River, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. It is located at around .-History:The first recorded mentions of Gniew appear in written documents from the first half of the 13th century, one of which refers to the region as Terra Gymeu...

, which lies approximately 31 kilometres (19 mi) south of Tczew

Tczew

Tczew is a town on the Vistula River in Eastern Pomerania, Kociewie, northern Poland with 60,279 inhabitants . It is an important railway junction with a classification yard dating to the Prussian Eastern Railway...

 and 61 km (38 mi) south of the regional capital Gdańsk

Gdansk

Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...

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The gmina covers an area of 194.78 square kilometres (75.2 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 15,534 (out of which the population of Gniew amounts to 6,787, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 8,747).

Villages

Apart from the town of Gniew, Gmina Gniew contains the villages and settlements of Aplinki

Aplinki

Aplinki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Brody

Brody, Pomeranian Voivodeship

Brody is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Ciepłe, Cierzpice

Cierzpice

Cierzpice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Dąbrówka

Dabrówka, Tczew County

Dąbrówka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Gogolewo

Gogolewo, Tczew County

Gogolewo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately west of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Jaźwiska

Jazwiska

Jaźwiska is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Jeleń

Jelen, Pomeranian Voivodeship

Jeleń is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Kolonia Ostrowicka

Kolonia Ostrowicka

Kolonia Ostrowicka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Kuchnia

Kuchnia, Pomeranian Voivodeship

Kuchnia is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north of Gniew, south-east of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Kursztyn

Kursztyn

Kursztyn is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Mała Karczma, Nicponia

Nicponia

Nicponia is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Opalenie

Opalenie

Opalenie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Ostrowite

Ostrowite, Gmina Gniew

Ostrowite is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Piaseckie Pola

Piaseckie Pola

Piaseckie Pola is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Piaseczno

Piaseczno, Tczew County

Piaseczno is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Pieniążkowo

Pieniazkowo

Pieniążkowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Polskie Gronowo

Polskie Gronowo

Polskie Gronowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Półwieś, Rakowiec

Rakowiec, Tczew County

Rakowiec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Stary Młyn, Szprudowo

Szprudowo

Szprudowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Tymawa

Tymawa, Pomeranian Voivodeship

Tymawa is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Widlice

Widlice, Pomeranian Voivodeship

Widlice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Wielkie Walichnowy

Wielkie Walichnowy

Wielkie Walichnowy is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north of Gniew, south-east of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Wielkie Wyręby

Wielkie Wyreby

Wielkie Wyręby is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Gniew, south of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

 and Włosienica.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Gniew is bordered by the gminas of Kwidzyn

Gmina Kwidzyn

Gmina Kwidzyn is a rural gmina in Kwidzyn County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the town of Kwidzyn, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina....

, Morzeszczyn

Gmina Morzeszczyn

Gmina Morzeszczyn is a rural gmina in Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Morzeszczyn, which lies approximately south of Tczew and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Nowe

Gmina Nowe

Gmina Nowe is an urban-rural gmina in Świecie County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Nowe, which lies approximately north-east of Świecie and north of Toruń....

, Pelplin

Gmina Pelplin

Gmina Pelplin is an urban-rural gmina in Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the town of Pelplin, which lies approximately south of Tczew and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Ryjewo

Gmina Ryjewo

Gmina Ryjewo is a rural gmina in Kwidzyn County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Ryjewo, which lies approximately north of Kwidzyn and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Sadlinki

Gmina Sadlinki

Gmina Sadlinki is a rural gmina in Kwidzyn County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Sadlinki, which lies approximately south-west of Kwidzyn and south of the regional capital Gdańsk....

, Smętowo Graniczne

Gmina Smetowo Graniczne

Gmina Smętowo Graniczne is a rural gmina in Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Smętowo Graniczne, which lies approximately south of Starogard Gdański and south of the regional capital Gdańsk.The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its...

 and Sztum

Gmina Sztum

Gmina Sztum is an urban-rural gmina in Sztum County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the town of Sztum, which lies approximately south-east of the regional capital Gdańsk....

.