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, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdańsk lies at the mouth of the Motława River and is situated at the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay, close to the city of Gdynia and the resort town of Sopot; these form a metropolitan area called the Tricity (Trójmiasto), with a population of approximately 1.5 million. Read more on Wikipedia