Gdańsk

Gdańsk (; 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.

 Internaitional relations 

 Twin touns — Sister ceeties 
Gdańsk is twinned wi:

  Bremen in Germany (syne 1976)
  Turku in Finland (syne 1987) 
  Barcelona in Spain (syne 1990) 
  Cleveland in Unitit States (syne 1990) 
  Kalmar in Swaden (syne 1991) 
  Helsingør in Denmark (syne 1992) 
  Marseille in Fraunce (syne 1992)   Rouen in France (syne 1992)
  Kaliningrad in Roushie (syne 1993)
  Sefton in Unitit Kinrick (syne 1993) 
  St. Petersburg in Roushie <small>(syne 1993)</small>
  Astana in Kazakhstan (syne 1996) 
  Odessa in Ukraine (syne 1996) 
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  Rotterdam in Netherlands (syne 1998) 
  Vilnius in Lithuanie <small>(syne 1998)  Nice in France (syne 1999) 
  Shanghai in Cheenae (syne 2004) 
  Palermo in Italy (syne 2005)
  Bytów in Poland (syne 2007)
  Colchester in Unitit Kinrick

References

 Freemit airtins 

Category:Ceeties an touns in Poland