| Gmina Jakubów Jakubów Commune | ||
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| Coordinates(Jakubów): 52°13′8″N21°40′38″E / 52.21889°N 21.67722°E Coordinates: 52°13′8″N21°40′38″E / 52.21889°N 21.67722°E | ||
| Country |  | |
| Voivodeship | Masovian | |
| County | Mińsk | |
| Seat | Jakubów | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 87.23 km2 (33.68 sq mi) | |
| Population (2013 [1] ) | ||
| • Total | 5,078 | |
| • Density | 58/km2 (150/sq mi) | |
| Website | http://www.jakubow.pl/ | |
Gmina Jakubów is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Mińsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Jakubów, which lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-east of Mińsk Mazowiecki and 45 km (28 mi) east of Warsaw.
The gmina is the principal unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. As of 2010 there were 2,478 gminy throughout the country. The word gmina derives from the German word Gemeinde, meaning "community".
Mińsk County is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It was (re)created on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Mińsk Mazowiecki, which lies 39 kilometres (24 mi) east of Warsaw. The county contains three other towns: Sulejówek, 21 km (13 mi) west of Mińsk Mazowiecki, Halinów, 16 km (10 mi) west of Mińsk Mazowiecki, and Kałuszyn, 17 km (11 mi) east of Mińsk Mazowiecki.
Mazovian Voivodeship or Mazovia Province is the largest and most populous of the 16 Polish provinces, or voivodeships, created in 1999. It occupies 35,579 square kilometres (13,737 sq mi) of east-central Poland, and has 5,324,500 inhabitants. Its principal cities are Warsaw in the centre of the Warsaw metropolitan area, Radom (226,000) in the south, Płock (127,000) in the west, Siedlce (77,000) in the east, and Ostrołęka (55,000) in the north. The capital of the voivodeship is the national capital, Warsaw.
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The gmina covers an area of 87.23 square kilometres (33.7 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 4,962 (5,078 in 2013).
