Ogórki (, translation: Cucumbers; ) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Puńsk, within Sejny County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Lithuania. It lies approximately 5 km south-east of Puńsk, 16 km north-west of Sejny, and 125 km north of the regional capital Białystok. From 1975-1998 the village was administratively governed by the Suwałki Voivodeship.

History

In 1827 it was recorded that the population of the village numbered at 68 and 8 homes and in 1886 it was numbered at 112 people and 13 homes. According to the First General Population Census of 1921, the village of Ogórki had 15 houses and 82 inhabitants. At that time, all inhabitants of the village declared Roman Catholicism. At the same time, the majority of the village inhabitants declared Lithuanian nationality (81 people), the remaining one person declared Polish nationality.

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