Gmina Moryń 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 Gryfino County

Gryfino County

Gryfino County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland, on the German border. 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...

, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

West Pomeranian Voivodeship

West Pomeranian Voivodeship, , is a voivodeship in northwestern Poland. It borders on Pomeranian Voivodeship to the east, Greater Poland Voivodeship to the southeast, Lubusz Voivodeship to the south, the German federal-state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania to the west, and the Baltic Sea to the north...

, in north-western 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 Moryń

Moryn

Moryń is a town in Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, with 1,580 inhabitants .The English author Christopher Isherwood describes spending several months in the spring and summer of 1932 in Mohrin in chapter five of his biography Christopher & His Kind...

, which lies approximately 44 kilometres (27 mi) south of Gryfino

Gryfino

Gryfino is a town in Pomerania, northwestern Poland with 22,500 inhabitants . It is also the capital of Gryfino County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship , previously in Szczecin Voivodeship ....

 and 64 km (40 mi) south of the regional capital Szczecin

Szczecin

Szczecin , is the capital city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It is the country's seventh-largest city and the largest seaport in Poland on the Baltic Sea. As of June 2009 the population was 406,427....

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The gmina covers an area of 124.86 square kilometres (48.2 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 4,296 (out of which the population of Moryń amounts to 1,570, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 2,726).

The gmina contains part of the protected area

Protected area

Protected areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognised natural, ecological and/or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the enabling laws of each country or the regulations of the international...

 called Cedynia Landscape Park

Cedynia Landscape Park

Cedynia Landscape Park is a protected area in north-western Poland, bordering Germany. It was established on 1 April 1993, by order of the governor of the then Szczecin Voivodeship. The Park covers an area of...

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Villages

Apart from the town of Moryń, Gmina Moryń contains the villages and settlements of Bielin

Bielin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

Bielin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Moryń, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Moryń, south of Gryfino, and south of the regional capital Szczecin.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany...

, Dolsko

Dolsko, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

Dolsko is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Moryń, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately north of Moryń, south of Gryfino, and south of the regional capital Szczecin.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany...

, Gądno

Gadno

Gądno is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Moryń, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately east of Moryń, south of Gryfino, and south of the regional capital Szczecin.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany...

, Klępicz

Klepicz

Klępicz is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Moryń, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately west of Moryń, south of Gryfino, and south of the regional capital Szczecin.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany...

, Macierz

Macierz, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

Macierz is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Moryń, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Moryń, south of Gryfino, and south of the regional capital Szczecin....

, Mierno

Mierno

Mierno is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Moryń, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania....

, Mirowo

Mirowo, Gryfino County

Mirowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Moryń, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately north of Moryń, south of Gryfino, and south of the regional capital Szczecin....

, Młynary, Moryń-Dwór

Moryn-Dwór

Moryń-Dwór is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Moryń, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania....

, Niwka

Niwka, Gryfino County

Niwka is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Moryń, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania....

, Nowe Objezierze

Nowe Objezierze

Nowe Objezierze is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Moryń, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately west of Moryń, south of Gryfino, and south of the regional capital Szczecin....

, Przyjezierze

Przyjezierze, Gryfino County

Przyjezierze is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Moryń, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately north of Moryń, south of Gryfino, and south of the regional capital Szczecin....

, Skotnica

Skotnica, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

Skotnica is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Moryń, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania....

, Stare Objezierze

Stare Objezierze

Stare Objezierze is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Moryń, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Moryń, south of Gryfino, and south of the regional capital Szczecin.Before 1945 the area was part of...

, Wisław, Witnica

Witnica, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

Witnica is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Moryń, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately east of Moryń, south of Gryfino, and south of the regional capital Szczecin.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany...

 and Witniczka

Witniczka

Witniczka is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Moryń, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania....

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Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Moryń is bordered by the gminas of Cedynia

Gmina Cedynia

Gmina Cedynia is an urban-rural gmina in Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland, on the German border...

, Chojna

Gmina Chojna

Gmina Chojna is an urban-rural gmina in Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland, on the German border...

 and Mieszkowice

Gmina Mieszkowice

Gmina Mieszkowice is an urban-rural gmina in Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland, on the German border...

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