Gdaňsk Old Town, Poland 2014 Another video Gdaňsk, part 2 youtu.be/9GVTqJi9hIc Gdańsk (pronounced [ɡdaɲsk], English pronunciation /ɡəˈdænsk/, German: Danzig, also known by other alternative names) is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland's principal seaport and the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area. The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay (of the Baltic Sea), in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity (Trójmiasto). In English is the diacritic over the "n" frequently omitted.