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Gmina Kornowac

rural gmina of Poland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ554874 ↗
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Gmina Kornowac is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Racibórz County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Its seat is the village of Kornowac, which lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) east of Racibórz and 53 km (33 mi) west of the regional capital Katowice.

The gmina covers an area of 26.3 square kilometres (10.2 sq mi), and as of 2019, its total population was 5,190.

Villages

Gmina Kornowac contains the villages and settlements of Kobyla, Kornowac, Łańce, Pogrzebień and Rzuchów.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Kornowac is bordered by the towns of Pszów and Racibórz, and by the gminas of Lubomia and Lyski.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Gmina, Kornowac and rural can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as rural gmina of Poland. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q554874. Authority coordinates are 50.073, 18.319. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gmina Kornowac” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.