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Gmina Sochocin

urban-rural gmina of Poland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ2325117 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gmina Sochocin is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Płońsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Sochocin, which lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-east of Płońsk and 64 km (40 mi) north-west of Warsaw.

The gmina covers an area of 119.67 square kilometres (46.2 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 5,713 (5,893 in 2013).

Villages

Gmina Sochocin contains the villages and settlements of:

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Sochocin is bordered by the gminas of Baboszewo, Glinojeck, Joniec, Nowe Miasto, Ojrzeń, Płońsk and Sońsk.

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“Gmina Sochocin” enters the record as urban-rural gmina of Poland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gmina, Sochocin and urban-rural can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2325117. Authority coordinates are 52.683, 20.467. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006 and 2013.

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