Bohoniki

Infobox Settlement
name = Bohoniki
settlement_type = Village
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Podlaskie
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Sokółka
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Sokółka
latd = 53
latm = 23
lats =
latNS = N
longd = 23
longm = 36
longs =
longEW = E
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population_total = 100
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Bohoniki IPA-pl| [|b|o|h|o|'|n|i|k|i|] 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. It lies approximately convert|7|km|mi|0 east of Sokółka and convert|42|km|mi|0|abbr=on north-east of the regional capital Białystok. The village has a population of 100.

It was primarily a Tatar settlement. Today still a few families in the village are Tatar and Muslim. The village used to have more than 3000 residents. Most of the present residents are older generation. Young residents have moved to big cities or other countries for better financial resources. Although residents don't speak their original Turkish-Tatar origin language, they have very close Turkish-Tatar traditions.

Sites of interest in the village include a wooden mosque and a Muslim cemetery.

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