Nowe Skalmierzyce
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  Nowe Skalmierzyce
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| Country |  Poland |
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| Voivodeship | Greater Poland | ||
| County | Ostrów Wielkopolski | ||
| Gmina | Nowe Skalmierzyce | ||
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| - Total | 1.59 km² (0.6 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2006) | |||
| - Total | 5,080 | ||
| - Density | 3,195/km² (8,274.9/sq mi) | ||
| Postal code | 63-460 | ||
| Website: http://www.noweskalmierzyce.pl/ | |||
Nowe Skalmierzyce [ˈnɔvɛ skalmjɛˈʐɨt͡sɛ] (German: Neu Skalmierschütz) is a town and its surrounding municipality in Ostrów Wielkopolski County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. The town has a population of 5,093 (2006 est.), while the municipality, Gmina Nowe Skalmierzyce, which is a mixed urban-rural gmina that includes the town, has a population of 15,191. The town has a land area of only 1.58 km², which results in a population density of 3,223.4 persons/km², the seventh highest density of all towns in Poland, and the second highest density (after Swarzędz) of the urban portion of any Polish urban-rural gmina (gmina miejsko-wiejska). The gmina has a land area of 125.42 km².
Nowe Skalmierzyce ("New Skalmierzyce") adjoins the urbanized village of Skalmierzyce, which is in fact the administrative seat of the gmina. Nowe Skalmierzyce originally developed as a customs post on the border between Prussia and Russian-controlled Congress Poland in the 19th century.
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