Jelitkowo
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Gdansk
Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...
in neighbourhood to Sopot
Sopot
Sopot is a seaside town in Eastern Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland, with a population of approximately 40,000....
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
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Located on the sea side, with beautiful sandy beaches, the town became known as an Ostsee-Bad Glettkau, a Baltic Sea
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and...
Bad (spa
Spa
The term spa is associated with water treatment which is also known as balneotherapy. Spa towns or spa resorts typically offer various health treatments. The belief in the curative powers of mineral waters goes back to prehistoric times. Such practices have been popular worldwide, but are...
-vacation town). Some important hotels, windsurfing schools and centers of water sports are in today's Jelitkowo. Traditional means of transportation is an old tram route, which was built from Danzig, the main city, to tram loop in Glettkau. It now runs from Gdansk to Jelitkowo.
Population (together with Żabianka
Zabianka
Żabianka and Jelitkowo, Wejhera, Tysiąclecia is one of the quarters of the city of Gdańsk, on the border with Sopot. Also the SKM stop called Gdańsk Żabianka....
) 23,145 inhabitants on area 2.1 km² (population density 10,923 inh/km²).