Nowe Skalmierzyce

Nowe Skalmierzyce
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Nowe Skalmierzyce
Coordinates: 51°43′N 18°0′E / 51.717°N 18.000°E / 51.717; 18.000
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Greater Poland
County	Ostrów Wielkopolski
Gmina	Nowe Skalmierzyce
Area
• Total	1.59 km2 (0.61 sq mi)
Population (2006)
• Total	5,080
• Density	3,200/km2 (8,300/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.

External links

• Official website (Polish)

Gmina Nowe Skalmierzyce Town Nowe Skalmierzyce Villages Skalmierzyce (seat) 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 Żakowice

Coordinates: 51°43′N 18°00′E / 51.717°N 18.000°E / 51.717; 18.000