Gdańsk

Gdańsk , also known as Danzig ([dantsiç] (help·info)) and several other names, is a city in northern Poland. It is the sixth-largest city in Poland, and serves as that nation's principal seaport as well as the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship.

The city lies on the southern coast of Gdańsk Bay (of the Baltic Sea), in a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdynia and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called "greater Gdańsk" and the Tricity (Trójmiasto) with a population of over a million people. Gdańsk is, with a population of 458,053 (2006), the largest city in the province of Eastern Pomerania, and present region of Gdańsk Pomerania. To the West lies the Kashubian Tricity (Rumia, Reda, and Wejherowo), while Prussian Gdansk is to the south.

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Kaliningrad (Russian: Калинингра́д; Lithuanian: Karaliaučius; GermanKönigsberg , Polish: Królewiec; briefly Russified as Кёнигсберг Kyonigsberg), is a seaport and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea. 

It is surrounded by NATO and EU members Poland and Lithuania and is geographically separated from the main part of Russia itself. Borderless connection is only possible by sea or air.

As of the 2002 Census, its population was 430,003, which is up from 401,280 recorded in the 1989 Census). Ethnic composition: Russians 77.9%, Belarusians 8.0%, Ukrainians 7.3%

Under its original German name of Königsberg, it was the capital of the German province of East Prussia, the earlier Duchy of Prussia, and before that of the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights.