| Gmina Stawiski Stawiski Commune | ||
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| Gmina | ||
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 Gmina Stawiski within the Kolno County | ||
| Coordinates(Stawiski): 53°22′N22°9′E / 53.367°N 22.150°E Coordinates: 53°22′N22°9′E / 53.367°N 22.150°E | ||
| Country |  | |
| Voivodeship | Podlaskie | |
| County | Kolno | |
| Seat | Stawiski | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 165.55 km2 (63.92 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011 [1] ) | ||
| • Total | 6,540 | |
| • Density | 40/km2 (100/sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 2,441 | |
| • Rural | 4,099 | |
| Website | http://www.stawiski.pl | |
Gmina Stawiski is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Kolno County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Stawiski, which lies approximately 16 kilometres (10 mi) east of Kolno and 74 km (46 mi) 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".
Kolno 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 Kolno, which lies 89 kilometres (55 mi) west of the regional capital Białystok. The only other town in the county is Stawiski, lying 16 km (10 mi) east of Kolno.
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 165.55 square kilometres (63.9 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 6,572 (out of which the population of Stawiski amounts to 2,442, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 4,130).
