- Srokowo
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Srokowo — Village — Church
SrokowoCoordinates: 54°12′49″N 21°31′14″E / 54.21361°N 21.52056°E Country 
PolandVoivodeship Warmian-Masurian County Kętrzyn Gmina Srokowo Population 1,400 Srokowo [srɔˈkɔvɔ] (1945-50: Dryfort), (German: Drengfurt) is a village in Kętrzyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Srokowo.[1] It lies approximately 17 kilometres (11 mi) north-east of Kętrzyn and 83 km (52 mi) north-east of the regional capital Olsztyn.
Before 1945 the area was part of the German province of East Prussia. It was renamed Dryfort in 1945, and Srokowo in 1950 after Stanisław Srokowski, the head of the Polish Committee for Settling of Place Names.[2]
The village has a population of 1,400.
References
Seat SrokowoOther villages Bajorki • Bajorski Gaj • Bajory Małe • Bajory Wielkie • Brzeźnica • Chojnica • Dolny Siniec • Goszczewo • Jankowice • Jegławki • Jegławki-Osada • Kaczory • Kałki • Kąty • Kolkiejmy • Kosakowo • Księży Dwór • Łęknica • Lesieniec • Łęsk • Leśniewo • Leśny Rów • Lipowo • Marszałki • Mazurkowo • Mintowo • Młynowo • Niedziały • Nowa Różanka • Osikowo • Pieczarki • Podlasie • Pyszki • Różanka-Leśniczówka • Rybakowo • Rypławki • Siemkowo • Silec • Silecki Folwark • Sińczyk-Leśniczówka • Siniec • Siniec-Cegielnia • Skandławki • Solanka • Sówka • Srokowski Dwór • Stare Jegławki • Suchodoły • Szczeciniak • Wikrowo • Wilcza Wólka • Wilcze • Wilczyny • Wólka Jankowska • Wyskok • Wysoka Góra • Złote PoleCoordinates: 54°12′49″N 21°31′14″E / 54.21361°N 21.52056°E
Categories:- Villages in Kętrzyn County
- Kętrzyn County geography stubs
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