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Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Pomeranian
- County
- Puck
- Gmina
- Puck (urban gmina)
- Established
- 12th century
- Mayor
- Hanna Pruchniewska
- City
- 16 km (6.2 sq mi)
- Highest elevation
- 20 m (66 ft)
- Lowest elevation
- 0 m (0 ft)
- Density
- 710/km (1,800/sq mi)
- Metro
- 1,080,700
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Postal code
- 84-100
- Area code
- +48 58
- Car plates
- GPU
- Website
- puck.pl
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Royal city in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Official name
- Puck
- Country
- Kingdom of Poland
- Located in
- Puck County
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 10868
- Area
- 4.9
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.miasto.puck.pl
- Image
- Puck, Plac Wolności.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Puck
- twinned administrative body
- Stein
- Commons gallery
- Puck
- Commons category
- Puck
- P6482
- Puck
- postal code
- 84-100
- native label
- Puck
- male population
- 5176
- female population
- 5692
- P8168
- 1989 NBA Draft
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Encyclopedic overview
Puck ( Polish pronunciation: [put͡sk] ; Kashubian: Pùckò, Pùck, Pëck, formerly German: Putzig, pronounced [ˈpʊtsɪç] ) is a town in northern 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 Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Puck” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.