My home town is
Starogard Gda?ski, in northern Poland. It is approximately 50km away from the voivodeship capital Gdansk. The town has a population of just below 50,000, but before the 1950s it was just a few thousand. The town boomed when industry started here, and the town is still very industrious, but now, much of the industry is high-tech, and the biggest provider of jobs is the pharmaceutical company Polpharma. Because of this late boom and industry, it's not the prettiest town in Poland, but it
does have some nice sights!
Starogard is the capital city of the ethnic region of Kociwie, which has it's own culture and dialect:
Starogard also has a very successful basketball team:
There also are many forests and lakes in the region: