Kosorowice
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Kosorowice k is a village
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in the administrative district of Gmina Tarnów Opolski
Gmina Tarnów Opolski
Gmina Tarnów Opolski, German Gemeinde Tarnau is a rural gmina in Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the village of Tarnów Opolski , which lies approximately south-east of the regional capital Opole.The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total...

, within Opole County
Opole County
Opole County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Opole Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the city of Opole, although the city is not...

, Opole Voivodeship
Opole Voivodeship
- Administrative division :Opole Voivodeship is divided into 12 counties : 1 city county and 11 land counties. These are further divided into 71 gminas.The counties are listed in the following table .- Economy :...

, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) west of Tarnów Opolski
Tarnów Opolski
Tarnów Opolski is a village in Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Tarnów Opolski...

 and 13 km (8 mi) south-east of the regional capital Opole
Opole
Opole is a city in southern Poland on the Oder River . It has a population of 125,992 and is the capital of the Upper Silesia, Opole Voivodeship and, also the seat of Opole County...

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Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (see Territorial changes of Poland after World War II
Territorial changes of Poland after World War II
The territorial changes of Poland after World War II were very extensive. In 1945, following the Second World War, Poland's borders were redrawn following the decisions made at the Potsdam Conference of 1945 at the insistence of the Soviet Union...

).

The village has an approximate population of 800. It is officially bilingual in both Polish
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

 and German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

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