The gmina covers an area of 147.71 square kilometres (57.0 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 8,459. Up to 2010 it was called Gmina Kąkolewnica Wschodnia, and had its seat in the village of Kąkolewnica Wschodnia ("East Kąkolewnica"), which is now part of Kąkolewnica.