Gdańsk, Poland
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Top: View of Central Gdańsk and Main City Hall, Middle-left: Old Town and Motława River at night, Centre: The Maiden in the Window, Middle-right: Neptune's Fountain in Long Market Street, Bottom-left: Neptune's Fountain in front of Artus Court, Bottom-right: Third Millennium John Paul Ⅱ Bridge
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| Motto: Nec Temere, Nec Timide (Neither rashly, nor timidly) |
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 Gdańsk
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| Coordinates: 54°22′N 18°38′E / 54.367°N 18.633°ECoordinates: 54°22′N 18°38′E / 54.367°N 18.633°E | |||
| Country | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship | Pomeranian | ||
| County | city county | ||
| Established | 10th century | ||
| City rights | 1263 | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Paweł Adamowicz (PO) | ||
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| • City | 262 km2 (101 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2014) | |||
| • City | 461,489 
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| • Metro | 1,080,700 | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 80-008 to 80–958 | ||
| Area code(s) | +48 58 | ||
| Car plates | GD | ||
| Website | gdansk.pl | ||
Gdańsk (Polish pronunciation: [ɡdaɲsk]; English /ɡəˈdænsk/; German: Danzig [ˈdantsɪç]) is a Polish city on the Baltic coast. It is the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland's principal seaport and is also the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.
The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay (of the Baltic Sea), in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity (Trójmiasto), with a population approaching 1.4 million. Gdańsk itself has a population of 460,427 (December 2012), making it the largest city in the Pomerania region of Northern Poland.
Gdańsk is the capital of Gdańsk Pomerania and the largest city of Kashubia. With its origins as Polish stronghold erected in 980s by Mieszko I of Poland, the city's history is complex, with periods of Polish rule, periods of Prusso-German rule, and periods of autonomy or self-rule as a "free city". Between the world wars, the Free City of Danzig was in a customs union with Poland and was located between German East Prussia and the so-called Polish Corridor.
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