| Gmina Staroźreby Staroźreby Commune | ||
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| Coordinates(Staroźreby): 52°38′N19°59′E / 52.633°N 19.983°E Coordinates: 52°38′N19°59′E / 52.633°N 19.983°E | ||
| Country |  | |
| Voivodeship | Masovian | |
| County | Płock County | |
| Seat | Staroźreby | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 137.55 km2 (53.11 sq mi) | |
| Population (2006) | ||
| • Total | 7,576 | |
| • Density | 55/km2 (140/sq mi) | |
Gmina Staroźreby is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Staroźreby, which lies approximately 22 kilometres (14 mi) north-east of Płock and 84 km (52 mi) north-west 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".
Płock County is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central 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 Płock, although the city is not part of the county. The county contains three towns: Gąbin, 17 km (11 mi) south of Płock, Drobin, 29 km (18 mi) north-east of Płock, and Wyszogród, 39 km (24 mi) south-east of Płock.
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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Areas of the administrative district are situated on the area of Masovia-Podlaskie land in the river basin of Wkra and the Vistula rivers. In the landscape flatlands are dominating and lightly wavy. They are reweighing pine, alder and birchen forests. In the local river basin Płonka a natural-landscape fall-rope is found, on the land which is building one's nests great crested grebe protected.
Wkra is a river in north-eastern Poland, a tributary of the Narew river, with a length of 255 kilometres and a basin area of 5,348 km² - all within Poland. Among its tributaries are the Łydynia and the Płonka.
The Vistula is the longest and largest river in Poland and the 9th longest river in Europe, at 1,047 kilometres in length. The drainage basin area of the Vistula is 193,960 km2 (74,890 sq mi), of which 168,868 km2 (65,200 sq mi) lies within Poland. The remainder is in Belarus, Ukraine and Slovakia.
A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae. Pinus is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. The Plant List compiled by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden accepts 126 species names of pines as current, together with 35 unresolved species and many more synonyms.
The gmina covers an area of 137.55 square kilometres (53.1 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 7,576.
