Mała Cerkwica is a village in north‑central Poland. Administratively, it is part of the Gmina (municipality) Sępólno Krajeńskie within Sępólno County (powiat sępoleński) of the Kuyavian‑Pomeranian Voivodeship (województwo kujawsko‑pomorskie). The settlement lies approximately 5 km south of the town of Sępólno Krajeńskie and about 50 km north‑west of the regional city of Bydgoszcz.
The village is recorded in the National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment (TERYT) maintained by Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS). Geographic coordinates are roughly 53°24′N 17°30′E, placing it within the Flatlands of the North‑Polish Lake District.
Population data for Mała Cerkwica are not extensively documented in major encyclopedic sources; the most recent publicly available figures indicate a small rural community, typically numbering a few hundred inhabitants.
The name “Mała Cerkwica” combines the Polish adjective mała (“small”) with the toponym Cerkwica, which may derive from the Old Slavic word cěrka meaning “church” or may be linked to historic local landholdings. The designation distinguishes it from any larger nearby settlement bearing the name Cerkwica.
