| Giby | |||||||||
| Settlement Type: | Village | ||||||||
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| Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||||||
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship | ||||||||
| Subdivision Name1: | Podlaskie | ||||||||
| Subdivision Type2: | County | ||||||||
| Subdivision Name2: | Sejny | ||||||||
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina | ||||||||
| Subdivision Name3: | Giby | ||||||||
| Pushpin Map: | Poland | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 54.0333°N 45°W | ||||||||
| Population As Of: | 2011 | ||||||||
| Population Total: | 538[1] | ||||||||
| Population Density Km2: | auto | ||||||||
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code | ||||||||
| Postal Code: | 16-506 | ||||||||
| Area Code Type: | Area code | ||||||||
| Area Code: | +48 87 | ||||||||
| Code1 Name: | SIMC | ||||||||
| Code1 Info: | 0757499 | ||||||||
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Giby (; Lithuanian: Gibai) is a village in Sejny County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the borders with Belarus and Lithuania.[2] It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Giby. It lies approximately 10km (10miles) south of Sejny and 1030NaN0 north of the regional capital Białystok. It lies between the lakes of Gieret and Pomorze, the Marycha River flows through the village.
The village was established in 1594.
Today's Catholic church of St. Anne (1912) originally served Old Believers in Pogorzelec village, from where it was moved to Giby in 1982.