Gmina Sośnicowice

Infobox Settlement
name = Gmina Sośnicowice
other_name = Sośnicowice Commune
settlement_type = Gmina
total_type = Total


image_shield = POL Sośnicowice COA.svg


subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Silesian
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Gliwice County
area_total_km2 = 116.24
population_total = 8249
population_as_of = 2006
population_density_km2 = auto
population_urban = 1747
population_blank1_title = Rural
population_blank1 = 6502
coor_type = Sośnicowice
latd = 50
latm = 17
lats = 0
latNS = N
longd = 18
longm = 32
longs = 0
longEW = E
seat = Sośnicowice
website = http://www.sosnicowice.pl/ __NOTOC__Gmina Sośnicowice is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Gliwice County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Its seat is the town of Sośnicowice, which lies approximately convert|10|km|mi|0 west of Gliwice and convert|34|km|mi|0|abbr=on west of the regional capital Katowice.

The gmina covers an area of convert|116.24|km2|sqmi|1, and as of 2006 its total population is 8,249 (out of which the population of Sośnicowice amounts to 1,747, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 6,502).

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Sośnicowice is bordered by the city of Gliwice and by the gminas of Bierawa, Kuźnia Raciborska, Pilchowice and Rudziniec.

References

* [http://www.stat.gov.pl/gus/45_655_PLK_HTML.htm Polish official population figures 2006]