| Gmina Warka Warka Commune | ||
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| Coordinates(Warka): 51°47′N21°12′E / 51.783°N 21.200°E Coordinates: 51°47′N21°12′E / 51.783°N 21.200°E | ||
| Country |  | |
| Voivodeship | Masovian | |
| County | Grójec | |
| Seat | Warka | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 201.14 km2 (77.66 sq mi) | |
| Population (2006) | ||
| • Total | 18,896 | |
| • Density | 94/km2 (240/sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 11,028 | |
| • Rural | 7,868 | |
| Website | http://www.warka.pl | |
Gmina Warka is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Grójec County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Warka, which lies approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) east of Grójec and 50 km (31 mi) south 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".
Grójec 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 and largest town is Grójec, which lies 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of Warsaw. The county contains three other towns: Warka, 25 km (16 mi) east of Grójec, Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą, 34 km (21 mi) south-west of Grójec, and Mogielnica, 22 km (14 mi) south-west of Grójec.
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 201.14 square kilometres (77.7 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 18,896 (of which the population of Warka amounts to 11,028, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 7,868).
