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Pruszcz Gdański [ˈpruʂt͡ʂ ˈgdaɲski] (German: Praust; Kashubian: Pruszcz Gduńsczi) is a town in Gdańsk Pomerania, northwestern Poland with 23 529 inhabitants (2004). Pruszcz Gdański is an industrial town neighbouring Gdańsk, part of the Tricity agglomeration. The Tricity Circle Highway begins in Pruszcz Gdański.
The capital of Gdańsk County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999, Pruszcz Gdański was previously a town in the Gdańsk Voivodeship (1975-1998). During World War II, Pruszcz Gdański was the location of Nazi Germany's Praust concentration camp, a female subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp.
Polskie Koleje Państwowe has a railway station in the town.
[edit] Population
- 1960: 7,800 inhabitants
- 1970: 13,100 inhabitants
- 1975: 16,200 inhabitants
- 1980: 18,500 inhabitants
- 1990: 21,100 inhabitants
- 1995: 21,200 inhabitants
- 2000: 22,200 inhabitants
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Coordinates: 54°16′N, 18°38′E
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