Narewka [naˈrɛfka] (Belarusian: На́раўка) is a village in eastern Poland, with its population estimated at 935 residents (as of 2011).[1] It is located in Gmina Narewka, Hajnówka County, within Podlaskie Voivodeship.[2] The village is located near Poland's border with Belarus. Many of its residents belong to Poland's Belarusian minority.

Narewka
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Coordinates: 52°50′10″N 23°45′27″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Podlaskie
County	Hajnówka County
Gmina	Gmina Narewka
Population  (2011)
• Total	935
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	17-220
Area code(s)	+48 85
Car plates	BHA

The village has Polish Catholic and Belarusian Eastern Orthodox churches. It used to have a synagogue, but it was destroyed by the local Jewish population, angered after the Red Army, which had invaded Poland in 1939, desecrated the synagogue by turning it into a storage building. Narewka's significant Jewish community eventually perished in the Holocaust and has not been restored.

It is in one of five Polish-Belarusian bilingual regions in Podlaskie Voivodeship regulated by the Act of 6 January 2005 on National and Ethnic Minorities and on the Regional Languages, which permits certain gminas with significant linguistic minorities to introduce a second, auxiliary language to be used in official contexts alongside Polish.[3]

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• Jewish cemeteries

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