Miejscowo

Miejscowo is not a recognized term in standard Polish. It is most often encountered as a misspelling or truncated form of miejscowość, which denotes a locality, settlement, or inhabited place. There is no separate administrative or linguistic category defined by the word "miejscowo" itself.

Etymology and relation to miejscowość: miejscowość is derived from miejsce, meaning place, with the suffix -owość that forms abstract nouns related to a quality or state. m i e j s c o w o would be an incomplete or nonstandard stem, and the correct, dictionary-backed form remains miejscowość.

Usage and standards: In formal writing, official documents, maps, and administrative registries, the proper term to describe a populated place is miejscowość. The word is used to designate villages, towns, and other inhabited locales within Poland’s territorial division. If the intended meaning is simply “a place” in a general sense, other Polish words such as miejsce (place) or miejscowość in specific contexts should be chosen instead. When encountered in nonofficial contexts, "miejscowo" is typically a typographical error or a shorthand that does not carry independent administrative significance.

See also: miejscowość; administrative divisions of Poland; gmina; powiat; voivodeship; TERYT (the National Official Register of Territorial Division of the Country).