Wejherowo
Sign in to saveWejherowo (; formerly ) is a city in Gdańsk Pomerania, northern Poland, with 48,735 inhabitants (2021). It has been the capital of Wejherowo County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999; previously, it was a city in Gdańsk Voivodeship (1975–1998).
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Wejherowo
- Settlement.native_name
- Wejrowò
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- csb
- Settlement.image_flag
- POL Wejherowo flag.svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- POL Wejherowo COA.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Poland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Voivodeship
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Wejherowo
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Gmina
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Wejherowo (urban gmina)
- Settlement.leader_title
- City mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Krzysztof Hildebrandt
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 1643
- Settlement.established_title3
- City rights
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Wejherowo (; formerly ) is a city in Gdańsk Pomerania, northern Poland, with 48,735 inhabitants (2021). It has been the capital of Wejherowo County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999; previously, it was a city in Gdańsk Voivodeship (1975–1998).
==Geographical location== Wejherowo is located in Pomeralia, in the ethnocultural region of Kashubia, approximately west of the town of Rumia, east of the town of Lębork and north-west of the regional metropole of Gdańsk, in the broad glacial valley of the river Rheda at an altitude of above sea level.