Ogórki | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Podlaskie |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Sejny |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Puńsk |
Coordinates: | 54.2333°N 38°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Population Total: | 71 [1] |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 16-515 [2] |
Blank Name: | Car plates |
Blank Info: | BSE |
Ogórki (translation: Cucumbers; lt|Agurkiai) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Puńsk, within Sejny County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Lithuania.[3] It lies approximately 5km (03miles) south-east of Puńsk, 160NaN0 north-west of Sejny, and 1250NaN0 north of the regional capital Białystok.
From 1975-1998 the village was administratively governed by the Suwałki Voivodeship.
In 1827 it was recorded that the population of the village numbered at 68 and 8 homes and in 1886 it was numbered at 112 people and 13 homes.[4]
According to the First General Population Census of 1921, the village of Ogórki had 15 houses and 82 inhabitants. At that time, all inhabitants of the village declared Roman Catholicism. At the same time, the majority of the village inhabitants declared Lithuanian nationality (81 people), the remaining one person declared Polish nationality.[5]