Gmina Zwierzyniec 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 Zamość County

Zamosc County

Zamość County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the city of Zamość, although the city is not part...

, Lublin Voivodeship

Lublin Voivodeship

- Administrative division :Lublin Voivodeship is divided into 24 counties : 4 city counties and 20 land counties. These are further divided into 213 gminas....

, in eastern 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 Zwierzyniec

Zwierzyniec

Zwierzyniec is a town on the Wieprz river in the Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. It has 3,324 inhabitants .Zwierzyniec is the northernmost town of the Roztocze National Park. The park comprises some of the last remaining sections of the primordial forest of Central Europe, especially...

, which lies approximately 24 kilometres (15 mi) south-west of Zamość

Zamosc

Zamość ukr. Замостя is a town in southeastern Poland with 66,633 inhabitants , situated in the south-western part of Lublin Voivodeship , about from Lublin, from Warsaw and from the border with Ukraine...

 and 76 km (47 mi) south of the regional capital Lublin

Lublin

Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...

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The gmina covers an area of 156.78 square kilometres (60.5 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 7,251 (out of which the population of Zwierzyniec amounts to 3,344, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 3,907).

Villages

Apart from the town of Zwierzyniec, Gmina Zwierzyniec contains the villages and settlements of Bagno

Bagno, Lublin Voivodeship

Bagno is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zwierzyniec, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately north of Zwierzyniec, south-west of Zamość, and south of the regional capital Lublin.-References:...

, Bór

Bór, Zamosc County

Bór is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Zwierzyniec, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Zwierzyniec, south-west of Zamość, and south-east of the regional capital Lublin....

, Guciów

Guciów

Guciów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zwierzyniec, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Zwierzyniec, south-west of Zamość, and south-east of the regional capital Lublin....

, Kosobudy

Kosobudy, Lublin Voivodeship

Kosobudy is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zwierzyniec, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Zwierzyniec, south-west of Zamość, and south-east of the regional capital Lublin....

 and Obrocz

Obrocz

Obrocz is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zwierzyniec, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Zwierzyniec, south-west of Zamość, and south-east of the regional capital Lublin....

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Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Zwierzyniec is bordered by the gminas of Adamów

Gmina Adamów, Zamosc County

Gmina Adamów is a rural gmina in Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Adamów, which lies approximately south-west of Zamość and south-east of the regional capital Lublin....

, Józefów

Gmina Józefów

Gmina Józefów is an urban-rural gmina in Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Józefów, which lies approximately east of Biłgoraj and south of the regional capital Lublin....

, Krasnobród

Gmina Krasnobród

Gmina Krasnobród is an urban-rural gmina in Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Krasnobród, which lies approximately south of Zamość and south-east of the regional capital Lublin....

, Radecznica

Gmina Radecznica

Gmina Radecznica is a rural gmina in Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Radecznica, which lies approximately west of Zamość and south of the regional capital Lublin....

, Szczebrzeszyn

Gmina Szczebrzeszyn

Gmina Szczebrzeszyn is an urban-rural gmina in Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Szczebrzeszyn, which lies approximately west of Zamość and south-east of the regional capital Lublin....

, Tereszpol

Gmina Tereszpol

Gmina Tereszpol is a rural gmina in Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Tereszpol, which lies approximately east of Biłgoraj and south of the regional capital Lublin....

 and Zamość

Gmina Zamosc

Gmina Zamość is a rural gmina in Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Zamość, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina....

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