Rumia is a town in Kashubia or Eastern Pomerania region, north-western Poland with some 40,000 inhabitants. Situated in the Wejherowo County in Pomeranian Voivodship since 1999, previously in Gdansk Voivodship (1975-1998).

It is connected by well developed railway and highway connections to the Tricity, over 1 milion aglomeration on the coast of Gdansk Bay.

Table of contents

1 Transportation 2 History 3 Population 4 Village Rumia

Transportation

Rumia is well connected through 4 lane highway, that lead from Wejherowo to Gdynia and from there by Circle Highway to Gdansk. There is a plan to extend Circle Highway from Gdynia to beyond Wejherowo. In Rumia there are 2 stops of the SKM (fast city railway), that connects Lebork-Wejherowo-Rumia-Gdynia-Sopot-Gdansk-Tczew. The stops are called Rumia and Rumia-Janowo. There is also network of city buses that goes directly to Gdynia and Gdynia-Dabrowa.

History

City was created in 1954 by the consolidation of few villages: Rumia village, Zagórze, Biala Rzeka, Szmelta and Janowo. 2001 yet another village of Kazimierz was included.

Population

1960: 15,100 inhabitants
1970: 23,300 inhabitants
1975: 26,000 inhabitants
1980: 26,700 inhabitants
1990: 37,500 inhabitants
1995: 40,000 inhabitants
1998: 40,200 inhabitants
2000: ? inhabitants

Village Rumia

Village Rumia (formerly village Rahmel) was one of the villges that united in 1954 into town Rumia.

Population: 800 1901