Gdynia is a seaport city on Poland's Baltic coast, with about 239,000 residents making it the 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in Pomeranian Voivodeship after Gdansk, and part of the roughly one-million-strong Tricity conurbation with Gdansk and Sopot. Built up from a modest fishing village after Poland's 1920 independence to give the country a seaport independent of the Free City of Danzig, it was granted city rights in 1926 and developed a modernist downtown recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and it was named a UNESCO City of Film in 2021.
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Sources
1. Gdynia, Wikipedia
Infobox, Population
Population (30 June 2025) • City county: 239,325
Infobox, Population year
Population (30 June 2025) • City county: 239,325
Infobox, Area
City county: 391.5 km2 (151.2 sq mi)
Infobox, Coordinates (latitude)
54.51750°N
Infobox, Coordinates (longitude)
18.54000°E
- In Group: Cities of Eastern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source2. Gdynia (Wikidata)
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 0 m
P571 (inception)
inception 1253
View the SourceWikidata: Gdynia
Wikidata Q385, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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