Gmina Nowe Skalmierzyce Nowe Skalmierzyce Commune | |
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 Interactive map of Gmina Nowe Skalmierzyce | |
| Coordinates (Skalmierzyce):51°42′N17°58′E / 51.700°N 17.967°E /51.700; 17.967 | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Greater Poland |
| County | Ostrów Wielkopolski |
| Seat | Skalmierzyce |
| Area | |
• Total | 125.67 km2 (48.52 sq mi) |
| Population (2017) | |
• Total | 151,430 |
| • Density | 1,205.0/km2 (3,120.9/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 5,080 |
| • Rural | 10,089 |
| Website | http://www.noweskalmierzyce.pl/ |
Gmina Nowe Skalmierzyce is an urban-ruralgmina (administrative district) inOstrów Wielkopolski County,Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-centralPoland. In 1999 the administrative seat of the gmina was moved from the town ofNowe Skalmierzyce to the adjoining locality ofSkalmierzyce, which is officially classed as a village. (This is now the only urban-rural gmina in Poland to have its seat outside the town; until 2009 it shared that status withGmina Święta Katarzyna, nowGmina Siechnice.)
The gmina covers an area of 125.67 square kilometres (48.5 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 15,169 (out of which the population of Nowe Skalmierzyce is 5,080, and the population of the remainder of the gmina is 10,089).
Skalmierzyce lies approximately 22 kilometres (14 mi) east ofOstrów Wielkopolski and 107 km (66 mi) south-east of the regional capitalPoznań.
Apart from Skalmierzyce and Nowe Skalmierzyce, the gmina also contains the villages and settlements ofBiskupice,Biskupice Ołoboczne,Boczków,Chotów,Czachory,Droszew,Fabianów,Gałązki Małe,Gałązki Wielkie,Głóski,Gniazdów,Gostyczyna,Kościuszków,Kotowiecko,Kurów,Leziona,Mączniki,Miedzianów,Ociąż,Osiek,Pawłów,Pawłówek,Śliwniki,Śmiłów,Strzegowa,Trkusów,Węgry andŻakowice.
Gmina Nowe Skalmierzyce is bordered by the city ofKalisz and by the gminas ofGodziesze Wielkie,Gołuchów,Ostrów Wielkopolski andSieroszewice.
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Seat:Ostrów Wielkopolski (urban gmina) | ||
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