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1 Stutthof concentration camp  
FeatureType : landmark
Elevation : 4
Lat/Lng : 54.3289 / 19.1539
Stutthof was a Nazi German concentration camp established in a secluded, wet, and wooded area near the small town of Sztutowo 34 km (21 mi) east of the city of Danzig in the former territory of the Free City of Danzig (...)
2 Puck, Poland  
FeatureType : city
Elevation : 15
Lat/Lng : 54.7 / 18.4167
Puck is a town in northwestern Poland with 11,350 inhabitants. It is in Gdańsk Pomerania on the south coast of the Baltic Sea (Bay of Puck) and part of Kashubia with many Kashubian speakers in the town. Previously in the Gdańsk Voivodeship (1975–1998), Puck has been the capital of Puck County in the (...)
3 Słupsk  
FeatureType : city
Elevation : 21
Lat/Lng : 54.4658 / 17.0292
Słupsk (; also known by several alternative names) is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, with a population of 98,757 inhabitants. It occupies and, according to the Central Statistical Office, Słupsk is one of the most densely populated cities in the country (...)
4 Gdańsk  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 7
Lat/Lng : 54.352 / 18.6466
Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast. It is the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship and the capital of Kashubia, Poland's principal seaport and the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area (...)
5 Elbląg  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 5
Lat/Lng : 54.1667 / 19.4
Elbląg (; ; Old Prussian: Elbings) is a city in northern Poland on the eastern edge of the Żuławy region with 124,257 inhabitants (December 31, 2011).birthplace of Anna Jarkiewicz before boarding a cargo container to Bournemouth in 2008 (...)
6 Gdynia  
FeatureType : city
Elevation : 13
Lat/Lng : 54.5173 / 18.5399
Gdynia is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland and a seaport of Gdańsk Bay on the south coast of the Baltic Sea. Located in Kashubia in Eastern Pomerania, Gdynia is part of a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdańsk and suburban communities, which together form a (...)
7 Møn  
FeatureType : isle
Elevation : 2
Lat/Lng : 54.9871 / 12.3528
Møn is an island in south-eastern Denmark. Until 1 January 2007, it was a municipality in its own right but it is now part of the municipality of Vordingborg, after merging with the former municipalities of Langebæk, Præstø, and Vordingborg (...)
8Pruszcz Gdański  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 24
Lat/Lng : 54.2667 / 18.6333
Pruszcz Gdański is a town in Gdańsk Pomerania, northwestern Poland with 26834 inhabitants (2010). Pruszcz Gdański is an industrial town neighbouring Gdańsk, part of the Tricity agglomeration. The Tricity Circle Highway begins in Pruszcz Gdański (...)
9 Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp  
FeatureType : landmark
Elevation : 226
Lat/Lng : 50.0312 / 19.9628
The Płaszów or Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp was a Nazi German labour and concentration camp built by the SS in Płaszów, a southern suburb of Kraków (now part of Podgórze district), soon after the German invasion of Poland and the subsequent creation of the semi-colonial General Government (...)
10Brusy  
FeatureType : city
Elevation : 146
Lat/Lng : 53.8856 / 17.7219
Brusy (Kashubian: Brusë ;) is a town located in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship. It became a town in 1988. (...)
11Sztutowo  
FeatureType : city
Elevation : 0
Lat/Lng : 54.3258 / 19.1789
Sztutowo is a village in Nowy Dwór Gdański County, part of the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland. It is located about 38 km (24 mi) east of Gdańsk on the northeastern edge of the Vistula Delta, at the base of the Vistula Spit on the Baltic coast (...)
12Kaiserwald concentration camp  
FeatureType : landmark
Elevation : 13
Lat/Lng : 56.997 / 24.1313
Kaiserwald (Ķeizarmežs) was a Nazi German concentration camp near the Riga suburb of Mežaparks in Latvia. Kaiserwald was built in March 1943, during the period that the German army occupied Latvia. The first inmates of the camp were several hundred convicts from Germany (...)
13Lębork  
FeatureType : city
Elevation : 19
Lat/Lng : 54.5417 / 17.75
Lębork (; ; is a town of 37,000 people on the Łeba and Okalica rivers in the Gdańsk Pomerania region in northwestern Poland. Lębork is also the capital of Lębork County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999, formerly the Słupsk Voivodeship (1975–1998) and Gdańsk Voivodeship (1945-1975). (...)
14Police, Poland  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 43
Lat/Lng : 53.5333 / 14.5667
Police (; ; Kashubian/Pomeranian: Pòlice) is a town in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, northwestern Poland. It is the capital of Police County. , the town had 34,220 inhabitants. This is one of the biggest towns of Szczecin agglomeration (...)
15Grudziądz  
FeatureType : city
Elevation : 21
Lat/Lng : 53.4833 / 18.7667
Grudziądz (or ' or Grudentia); the form Grudentia is used by, e.g., A. Lentz, Philologus 23 (1866), p. 175. is a city of around 96,042 inhabitants (2010) on the Vistula River in northern Poland. Situated in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (since 1999), the city was in the Toruń Voivodeship from (...)
16Biskupia Górka  
FeatureType : mountain
Elevation : 55
Lat/Lng : 54.3436 / 18.6383
Biskupia Górka (sometimes Bischofshügel) is a part of the city of Gdańsk in Poland. Historically, Biskupia Górka had important strategic meaning, since it is a hill close to the main city. On July 4, 1946, eleven guards of the Stutthof concentration camp were publicly hanged for what was described (...)
17Żukowo  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 152
Lat/Lng : 54.3458 / 18.3606
Żukowo is a town in Kartuzy County, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of northern Poland in the cultural region of Kashubia, with 6,236 inhabitants (2005). It is located along the Radunia river in the historic Pomerelia, about southwest of Gdańsk (...)
18Free City of Danzig  
FeatureType : country
Elevation : 5
Lat/Lng : 54.35 / 18.6667
The Free City of Danzig was a semi-autonomous city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now , Poland) and nearly 200 towns and villages in the surrounding areas (...)
19Bergen auf Rügen  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 65
Lat/Lng : 54.4173 / 13.4306
Bergen auf Rügen is the capital of the former district of Rügen in the middle of the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Since 1 January 2005, Bergen has moreover been the administrative seat of the Amt of Bergen auf Rügen, which with a population of over 23,000 is (...)
20Bydgoszcz  
FeatureType : city
Elevation : 68
Lat/Lng : 53.1167 / 18.0
Bydgoszcz is a city in northern Poland, on the Brda and Vistula rivers. With a city population of 358,614 (June 2014), and an urban agglomeration with more than 470,000 inhabitants, Bydgoszcz is the eighth-largest city in Poland (...)