| Gmina Rajgród Rajgród Commune | ||
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| Gmina | ||
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 Gmina Rajgród within the Grajewo County | ||
| Coordinates(Rajgród): 53°43′49″N22°41′33″E / 53.73028°N 22.69250°E Coordinates: 53°43′49″N22°41′33″E / 53.73028°N 22.69250°E | ||
| Country |  | |
| Voivodeship | Podlaskie | |
| County | Grajewo | |
| Seat | Rajgród | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 207.16 km2 (79.98 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011 [1] ) | ||
| • Total | 5,487 | |
| • Density | 26/km2 (69/sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 1,669 | |
| • Rural | 3,818 | |
Gmina Rajgród is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Grajewo County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Rajgród, which lies approximately 19 kilometres (12 mi) north-east of Grajewo and 75 km (47 mi) north-west of the regional capital Białystok.
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".
Grajewo County is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-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 and largest town is Grajewo, which lies 76 kilometres (47 mi) north-west of the regional capital Białystok. The county also contains the towns of Szczuczyn, lying 15 km (9 mi) south-west of Grajewo, and Rajgród, 19 km (12 mi) north-east of Grajewo.
Podlaskie Voivodeship or Podlasie Province is a voivodeship (province) in northeastern Poland. It borders on Masovian Voivodeship to the west, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship to the northwest, Lublin Voivodeship to the south, the Belarusian Voblasts of Grodno and Brest to the east, the Lithuanian Counties of Alytus and Marijampolė to the northeast, and the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia to the north.
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The gmina covers an area of 207.16 square kilometres (80.0 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 5,539 (out of which the population of Rajgród amounts to 1,673, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 3,866).
