Tricity

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Tricity (also called Treble City, in Polish Trójmiasto) is the large city consisting of the three Polish district Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot. They are situated very close to each other on the coast of the Gdańsk Bay on the Baltic Sea, in Eastern Pomerania (Pomeranian Voivodship), northern Poland. The Tricity metropolitan area has a population of over 1 million people.

1 Welfare
2 Population
3 Education
4 Transport
5 External links

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Welfare

Tricity belongs to the agglomerations in Poland with the highest number of rich taxpayers. Nearly 35% belongs to the middle and high taxable income groups (average for Poland 10%). Accordingly 11.39% of taxpayers belong to highest taxable income group in Gdańsk, 11.08% in Gdynia and 13.40% in Sopot (Polish average 3%).

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Population

The total population of the 3 cities comprising Tricity (Gdańsk + Gdynia + Sopot):

1960: 481,100 inhabitants (286,900 + 150,200 + 44,000)
1970: 604,800 inhabitants (365,600 + 191,500 + 47,700)
1975: 693,800 inhabitants (421,000 + 221,100 + 51,700)
1980: 744,400 inhabitants (456,700 + 236,400 + 51,300)
2004: 754,960 inhabitants (460,524 + 253,650 + 40,785)

The Tricity metropolitan area also includes Wejherowo, Reda, Rumia, Tczew, Pruszcz Gdański and several other communities. The total population in 2004 was 1,041,066, in an area of 1332.5 km². (Compare: in 2001 1,035,000, so the annual increase was 0.20%).

Largest European metropolitan areas

The Tricity continuous urban area includes following neighbouring cities:

city	area 1996	area 1999-2003	1996	1999	2003
Gdańsk	26.203	26.203	462.336	457.937	461.011
Gdynia	13.549	13.549	251.932	255.014	253.500
Sopot	1.731	1.731	43.360	42.333	41.017
Pruszcz Gdański	1.647	1.647	21.470	21.757	23.187
Reda	2.639	2.945	15.422	17.510	17.868
Wejherowo	2.565	2.565	47.357	47.038	46.900
Total	51.342	51.648	882.871	884.080	885.240

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(average growth 1996-2003 0.05%)

Largest urban areas of the European Union

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Education

The Tricity is an important center of education.

Gdańsk: Number of universities: 14(2001) Number of students: 60,436 (2001) Number of graduates: 10,439 (2001)
Gdynia: Number of universities: 7 (2003) Number of students: 13,362

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Transport

Tricity has a well-developed transport system. In addition, each city has its own transport system. Here is described only the common part of the system.

Development of the Tricity was smoothed by the construction of the city train (SKM) 1951, binding the whole area from Tczew by Gdańsk, Sopot 1953, Gdynia 1956, Reda, Rumia to Wejherowo 1957.

The backbone of the Tricity is the Inner Highway. It starts in Gdańsk and goes through Sopot, Gdynia, Reda and Rumia to Wejherowo. It consists from 2-4 lanes in each direction. Despite the fact that the traffic is stopped on the lights, it remains the main traffic route in the agglomeration.

In 1975 the Circle Highway was constructed. It starts in Pruszcz Gdański and goes through Gdańsk to Gdynia-Chylonia. The Circle has 2 (and in parts 3) lanes in each direction. Recently the highway was upgraded to the standard of the non-collision highway. The extension of the Circle is planned in the northern part, since it is obvious that the existing highway to Wejherowo will be overcrowded by 2005.

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