| Sternowo | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Pomeranian |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Chojnice |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Chojnice |
| Coordinates: | 53.6986°N 17.7136°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Population Total: | 129 |
| Registration Plate: | GCH |
Sternowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chojnice, within Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 11km (07miles) east of Chojnice and 960NaN0 south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
Sternowo was a private village of Polish nobility, including the Żabiński and Żukowski families, administratively located in the Człuchów County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland.[2]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940 and 1942, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, who were deported either to the General Government in the more-eastern part of German-occupied Poland or to forced labour in Germany.[3] Houses and farms of expelled Poles were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[3]