1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Poland
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Gdańsk—487,371, Europe/Warsaw, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city and capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship on the Baltic coast of northern Poland.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Gdańsk is GeoNames ID 3099434. Its recorded administrative path is Gdansk → Pomerania → Poland, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Gdańsk occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Gdańsk ranks 1,177 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Poland entries it ranks 6; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 118. Its 487,371 population value is 0.74 times the 656,218 median for the country cohort and 0.73 times the 664,046 regional median. Gdańsk is rank 6 among the 6 selected Poland entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Gdańsk's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Gdańsk's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Poznań at 244.512 km with 536,151 recorded people; Warsaw at 283.447 km with 1,702,139 recorded people; Łódź at 292.309 km with 639,890 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 47.797 km. Compared with Poznań, Gdańsk's recorded population is 0.91 times as large. Against Gdańsk, Poznań follows Poznan → Greater Poland → Poland in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Poland cohort, uses the shared Europe/Warsaw identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Gdańsk's. Against Gdańsk, Warsaw follows Warszawa → Mazovia → Poland in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Poland cohort, uses the shared Europe/Warsaw identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Gdańsk's. Against Gdańsk, Łódź follows Lodz → Lodz Voivodeship → Poland in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Poland cohort, uses the shared Europe/Warsaw identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Gdańsk's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,058 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Gdańsk's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3099434, the coordinate pair 54.3523 / 18.6491, country rank 6 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 3088171 at 244.512 km bind Gdańsk to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Gdańsk's reference point is 54.3523° north and 18.6491° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Warsaw is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Gdańsk's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Gdańsk's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Gdańsk's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Gdańsk, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Gdańsk's closest other entries in this atlas are Poznań (244.512 km), Warsaw (283.447 km), Łódź (292.309 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.