Gdańsk (pol)

Gdańsk

Gdańsk ranks 254th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Essen, Fukuoka, and Denmark. Memorable people born in Gdańsk include Arthur Schopenhauer, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, and Donald Tusk. Memorable people who died in Gdańsk include Johannes Hevelius, Martin Opitz, and Elisabeth Hevelius. Gdańsk has been the birth place of many politicians, and actors and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Gdańsk is located in Poland.

Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland. With a population of 486,492, Gdańsk is the capital and largest city of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. It is Poland's principal seaport and the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area. The city lies at the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay, close to the city of Gdynia and resort town of Sopot; these form a metropolitan area called the Tricity (Trójmiasto), with a metropolitan population of approximately 1.5 million. Gdańsk lies at the mouth of the Motława River, connected to the Leniwka, a branch in the delta of the Vistula River, which connects Gdańsk with Warsaw. Read more on Wikipedia