Rapice
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Rąpice r is a village
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in the administrative district of Gmina Cybinka
Gmina Cybinka
Gmina Cybinka is an urban-rural gmina in Słubice County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland, on the German border. Its seat is the town of Cybinka, which lies approximately south-east of Słubice, north-west of Zielona Góra, and south-west of Gorzów Wielkopolski.The gmina covers an area of ,...

, within Słubice County, Lubusz Voivodeship
Lubusz Voivodeship
- Administrative division :Lubusz Voivodeship is divided into 14 counties : 2 city counties and 12 land counties. These are further divided into 83 gminas....

, in western Poland, close to the German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 border. It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) south-west of Cybinka
Cybinka
Cybinka is a town in Słubice County, Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland, with 2,700 inhabitants . It is the administrative seat of the Gmina Cybinka.The settlement in the Lubusz Land was first mentioned about 1400, then a part of Brandenburg...

, 29 km (18 mi) south-east of Słubice, 57 km (35 mi) west of Zielona Góra, and 77 km (48 mi) south-west of Gorzów Wielkopolski.

Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (see Territorial changes of Poland after World War II
Territorial changes of Poland after World War II
The territorial changes of Poland after World War II were very extensive. In 1945, following the Second World War, Poland's borders were redrawn following the decisions made at the Potsdam Conference of 1945 at the insistence of the Soviet Union...

).

The village has a population of 550.
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