Gmina Paczków 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 Nysa County

Nysa County

Nysa County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Opole Voivodeship, south-western Poland, on the Czech 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 town is Nysa,...

, Opole Voivodeship

Opole Voivodeship

- Administrative division :Opole Voivodeship is divided into 12 counties : 1 city county and 11 land counties. These are further divided into 71 gminas.The counties are listed in the following table .- Economy :...

, in south-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...

, on the Czech

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

 border. Its seat is the town of Paczków

Paczków

Paczków is a town in Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, Poland, with 8,226 inhabitants . It is one of the few towns in Europe in which medieval fortifications have been almost completely preserved...

, which lies approximately 24 kilometres (15 mi) west of Nysa

Nysa, Poland

Nysa is a town in southwestern Poland on the Nysa Kłodzka river with 47,545 inhabitants , situated in the Opole Voivodeship. It is the capital of Nysa County. It comprises the urban portion of the surrounding Gmina Nysa, a mixed urban-rural commune with a total population of 60,123 inhabitants...

 and 71 km (44 mi) west of the regional capital Opole

Opole

Opole is a city in southern Poland on the Oder River . It has a population of 125,992 and is the capital of the Upper Silesia, Opole Voivodeship and, also the seat of Opole County...

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The gmina covers an area of 79.7 square kilometres (30.8 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 13,743 (out of which the population of Paczków amounts to 8,147, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 5,596).

Villages

Apart from the town of Paczków, Gmina Paczków contains the villages and settlements of Dziewiętlice

Dziewietlice

Dziewiętlice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Paczków, within Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border...

, Frydrychów

Frydrychów, Opole Voivodeship

Frydrychów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Paczków, within Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border....

, Gościce

Goscice

Gościce is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Paczków, within Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border...

, Kamienica

Kamienica, Opole Voivodeship

Kamienica is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Paczków, within Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border...

, Kozielno

Kozielno

Kozielno is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Paczków, within Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border...

, Lisie Kąty

Lisie Katy, Opole Voivodeship

Lisie Kąty is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Paczków, within Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border...

, Ścibórz

Scibórz

Ścibórz is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Paczków, within Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border...

, Stary Paczków

Stary Paczków

Stary Paczków is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Paczków, within Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border. It lies approximately east of Paczków, west of Nysa, and west of the regional capital Opole.Before 1945 the area was part of...

, Trzeboszowice

Trzeboszowice

Trzeboszowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Paczków, within Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border...

, Ujeździec

Ujezdziec

Ujeździec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Paczków, within Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border...

, Unikowice

Unikowice

Unikowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Paczków, within Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border...

 and Wilamowa

Wilamowa

Wilamowa is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Paczków, within Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border...

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Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Paczków is bordered by the gminas of Kamieniec Ząbkowicki

Gmina Kamieniec Zabkowicki

Gmina Kamieniec Ząbkowicki is a rural gmina in Ząbkowice Śląskie County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland...

, Otmuchów

Gmina Otmuchów

Gmina Otmuchów is an urban-rural gmina in Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, on the Czech border...

, Ziębice

Gmina Ziebice

Gmina Ziębice is an urban-rural gmina in Ząbkowice Śląskie County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland...

 and Złoty Stok. It also borders the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

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