Grobiņa Municipality () was a municipality in Courland, Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Bārta Parish, Gavieze Parish, Grobiņa Parish, Medze Parish and the town of Grobiņa with the administrative centre being Grobiņa. The population in 2020 was 8,347.
Grobiņa Municipality ceased to exist on 1 July 2021, when it was merged into the newly formed South Kurzeme Municipality.
Notable countrymen (Georg Sigismund von Bilterling, 1733-1803) — pastor and teacher (1895-1955) — politician (1889-1947) — actor Andrejs Freimanis (1914-1994) — officer of the Latvian Legion, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (1882-1951) — first Latvian Naval Forces admiral Eduard Schmidt von der Launitz ( Eduard Schmidt von der Launitz , 1796-1869) — German sculptor (1882-1941) — politician and minister in the Latvian government Fricis Rokpelnis (1909-1969) — writer
See also Administrative divisions of Latvia (2009)
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