Jantar , formerly known in Polish between 1945 and 1947 as ''Paców'', is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the administrative district of

Gmina Stegna __NOTOC__ Gmina Stegna is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. The gmina seat is Stegna, which lies approximately north of Nowy Dwór Gdański and east of the regiona ...

, within Nowy Dwór Gdański County,

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, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north of

Nowy Dwór Gdański Nowy Dwor Gdanski (; ; formerly ) is a town in Poland on the Tuja river in the Żuławy Wiślane Żuławy Wiślane (plural from "żuława", meaning fen), in English known as the Vistula Fens, is the alluvial delta area of the river Vistula, in ...

and east of the regional capital

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. The word "Jantar" comes from the

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word for

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File:Jantar beach.jpg, Beach to the west of Jantar (summer). File:Jantar plaza 2.jpg, Sea ice on the beach in Jantar (winter).

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Villages in Nowy Dwór Gdański County {{NowyDwórGdański-geo-stub

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