Some facts about
the city of Gdynia The young city of Gdynia (formerly Gdingen) is situated in northern Poland by the Baltic Sea, some 20km north of Gdansk. The dynamic seaport has, since 1920, grown from a small fishing village to an industrial seaport district with 250,000 inhabitants. Gdynia is well-known as a commercial and dockyard city.
During the Second World War, Gdynia served the German troops as a naval base under the name of Gotenhafen. When the wave of refugees flooded out of East Prussia at the end of the war, Gdynia was one of the most important evacuation ports from which ships sailed to the west.
You can find information about Gdynia at: http://www.gdynia.pl/?lang=en