Wojtokiemie
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Wojtokiemie | |
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Village | |
  Wojtokiemie | |
| Coordinates: 54°13′N 23°13′E / 54.217°N 23.217°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Podlaskie |
| County | Sejny |
| Gmina | Puńsk |
| Population | 129[1] |
| Postal code | 16-515 [2] |
| Car plates | BSE |
Wojtokiemie ([vɔi̯tɔˈkʲɛmjɛ]; Lithuanian: Vaitakiemis[3]) 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.[4]
Teacher and ethnographer, activist for the Lithuanian minority in Poland Aldona Wojciechowska was born here.
In 1827 it was recorded that the population of the village numbered at 173 and 29 homes and in 1893 it was numbered at 510 people and 50 homes.[5]
