Gmina Nowe Skalmierzyce | |
Other Name: | Nowe Skalmierzyce Commune |
Settlement Type: | Gmina |
Total Type: | Total |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Greater Poland |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Ostrów Wielkopolski |
Area Total Km2: | 125.67 |
Population Total: | 151430 |
Population As Of: | 2017 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Urban: | 5080 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Rural |
Population Blank1: | 10089 |
Coor Pinpoint: | Skalmierzyce |
Coordinates: | 51.7°N 75°W |
Seat: | Skalmierzyce |
Website: | http://www.noweskalmierzyce.pl/ |
Gmina Nowe Skalmierzyce is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Ostrów Wielkopolski County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. In 1999 the administrative seat of the gmina was moved from the town of Nowe Skalmierzyce to the adjoining locality of Skalmierzyce, which is officially classed as a village. (This is now the only urban-rural gmina in Poland to have its seat outside the town; until 2009 it shared that status with Gmina Święta Katarzyna, now Gmina Siechnice.)
The gmina covers an area of 125.67km2, and as of 2006 its total population is 15,169 (out of which the population of Nowe Skalmierzyce is 5,080, and the population of the remainder of the gmina is 10,089).
Skalmierzyce lies approximately 22km (14miles) east of Ostrów Wielkopolski and 1070NaN0 south-east of the regional capital Poznań.
Apart from Skalmierzyce and Nowe Skalmierzyce, the gmina also contains the villages and settlements of Biskupice, Biskupice Ołoboczne, Boczków, Chotów, Czachory, Droszew, Fabianów, Gałązki Małe, Gałązki Wielkie, Głóski, Gniazdów, Gostyczyna, Kościuszków, Kotowiecko, Kurów, Leziona, Mączniki, Miedzianów, Ociąż, Osiek, Pawłów, Pawłówek, Śliwniki, Śmiłów, Strzegowa, Trkusów, Węgry and Żakowice.
Gmina Nowe Skalmierzyce is bordered by the city of Kalisz and by the gminas of Godziesze Wielkie, Gołuchów, Ostrów Wielkopolski and Sieroszewice.