Zawistowszczyzna | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Podlaskie |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Sokółka |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Sokółka |
Coordinates: | 53.3833°N 51°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Website: | http://www.zawistowszczyzna.com/ |
Zawistowszczyzna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sokółka, within Sokółka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus.[1] It lies approximately 3km (02miles) south-west of Sokółka and 360NaN0 north-east of the regional capital Białystok.
Since March 2007, the sołtys (village chief) is Dr. Mohamed Ali Al-Hameri, a gynaecologist born in Yemen who came to Poland in 1983 to study medicine.[2]