Gdańsk

Gdańsk
Gdańsk
	Tap: View o Central Gdańsk an Main Ceety Haw, Middle o left: Auld Toun an Motlawa River in nicht, Centre: The Maiden in the Window in Mariacka Street, Middle o richt: Foontain o Neptune Statue at Lang Mercat Street, Bottom left: Neptune statue in front o Artus Coort in Lang Mercat Street, Bottom richt: Third Millennium John Paul Ⅱ Brig
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	Motto(s): Nec Temere, Nec Timide ; (Neither rashly, nor timidly)
	Gdańsk
	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
Kintra	Poland
Voivodeship	Pomeranie
Coonty	ceety coonty
Established	10t century
Ceety richts	1263
Govrenment
• Mayor	Vacant
Area
• City	262 km2 (101 sq mi)
Population (2013)
• City	460 815
• Metro	1,080,700
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	80-008 to 80-958
Area code(s)	+48 58
Caur plates	GD
Website	gdansk.pl

Gdańsk (German: Danzig; whiles cried Danskin in aulder Scots scrievins) is a ceety on the Baltic coast in northren Poland, at the centre o the kintray's fowert-lairgest metropolitan aurie.

The ceety lies on the soothren edge o Gdańsk Bay (o the Baltic Sea), in a conurbation wi the ceety o Gdynia, spa toun o Sopot, an suburban communities, which thegither form a metropolitan aurie cried the Tricity (Trójmiasto), wi a population o ower 800,000. Gdańsk itsel haes a population o 461.935 (Juin 2014), makin it the lairgest ceety in the Pomeranie region o Northren Poland.

Gdańsk is Poland's principal seaport as well as the caipital o the Pomerania Voivodeship. It is an aa historically the lairgest ceety o the Kashubian region. The ceety is close tae the umwhile late medieval/modren bundary atween Wast Slavic an Germanic lands an it haes a complex poleetical history wi periods o Pols rule, periods o German rule, an extensive sel-rule, wi twa spells as a free ceety. It haes been pairt o modren Poland syne 1945.

Gdańsk is situatit at the mooth o the Motława River, connectit tae the Leniwka, a branch in the delta o the nearbi Vistula River, whose waterway seestem supplies 60% o the aurie o Poland an connects Gdańsk tae the naitional caipital in Warsaw. This gies the ceety a unique advantage as the centre o Poland's sea tred. Thegither wi the nearbi port o Gdynia, Gdańsk is an' a' an important industrial centre. Historically an important seaport an shipbiggin centre, Gdańsk wis a member o the Hanseatic League.