Poland
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Offeecial leid | Polish | ||||
Caipital | Warszawa | ||||
Lairgest ceety | Warszawa | ||||
Preses | Lech Kaczyński | ||||
Government Prime Meenister | Donald Tusk |
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Area - Tot - % watter |
312,000 km² 3,07% |
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Population - 2006 Estimate Density |
38,518,241 122 /km²; |
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Foondin - Declarit - Finalisit |
Mieszko I 966 November 11, 1918 |
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Siller | Złoty (PLN) | ||||
Time zone | UTC +1, Summer: UTC +2 | ||||
Naitional anthem | Mazurek Dąbrowskiego |
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Internet TLD | .pl | ||||
Cawin code | +48 |
The Republic o Poland (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Polska), for ordinar kent juist as Poland (Polska), is a kintra in central/aestren Europe. It mairches ontae the Baltic Sea tae the north, alang wi the Kaliningrad Oblast o Roushie. Lithuanie mairches tae the nor-aest, Beloroushae tae the aest, Ukraine tae the sooth-aest, Slovakie an the Czech Republic tae the sooth, an Germany tae the wast.
The haill area o Poland is 312,679 km², makkin it the 69t lairgest kintra i the warld and 7t in Europe. Poland's population is mair nor 38.5 million, concentratit mainly around the ceities.
The furst Polish state wis stertit i 966, in a territory similar tae the present area o Poland. Poland becam a kinrick i 1025, an i 1569 it cementit a lang associe wi the Grand Duchy o Lithuania by unitin ti form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonweal. The Commonweal collapsed i 1795. Poland regained its independence i 1918 eftir the Furst Warld War bit tint it aince mair i the Saicont Warld War, bein occupied bi Nazi Germany an the Soviet Union, an emergin eftir as a communist kintra in the Eastern Block under the control o the Soviet Union. I 1989, communist rule wis owerthrawn an Poland becam whit is informally kent as the "Third Polish Republic". Poland is the 33rd maist populous kintra in the warld. Poland is a unitary state made up o saxteen voivodeships (Polish: województwo). Poland is a memmer o the European Union, NATO, and OECD anaw.
[edit] Ceeties o Poland
- Warszawa - Warsaw
- Łodź - Boat
- Kraków - Cracow
- Wrocław - Breslau
- Poznań
- Gdańsk - Danzig
- Szczecin - Stettin
- Bydgoszcz
- Lublin
- Katowice
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