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Wejherowo
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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).
Key facts
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- Wejherowo
- Settlement.native_name
- Wejrowò
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- csb
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- POL Wejherowo flag.svg
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- POL Wejherowo COA.svg
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- Poland
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- bottom
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- Country
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- Voivodeship
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- County
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- Wejherowo
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- Gmina
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- Wejherowo (urban gmina)
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- City mayor
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- Krzysztof Hildebrandt
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- Established
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- 1643
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- 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wejherowo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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