The municipality of Gdansk covers an area of 262 sq. It lies in Northern Poland on the Bay of Gdansk. The natural conditions are characterized by varied scenery created by the Pomeranian phase of the Baltic glacial period. The city, as well as its neighbours Gdynia and Sopot, owes its picturesque location in a zonal arrangement to the post-glacial formations. The zones are: the coastal zone (11 kilometers of shoreline), the zone of hills, the plain delta of the Vistula and the Kasubian valley.

The climatic conditions of Gdansk are changeable due to the landscape, different air masses meeting here (usually the polar and martime, and the polar and continental air) and the tempering influence of the Baltic Sea.

Gdansk is situated in the middle of the southern Baltic shore on the Bay of Gddans which shelters it from the open sea. It has always been situated at a junction of European trade routes, both land and martime ones. The north-south trade route connects Scandinavia with the Near East, the west-east route links Germany Latvia Lithuania and Estonia. The shortest road from Oslo and Stockholm to the Balkan countries and between Moscow, Minsk and Western Europe runs through Gdansk.

Almost 500 thousend people live in Gdansk, including about 230 thousend males and 250 thousend females. The population has not distincly changed for the last couple of years.