Poland
Watermark portrait: John Paul II
Country in Central Europe
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, and borders Lithuania and Russia to the northeast; Belarus and Ukraine to the east; Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south; and Germany to the west. The territory has a varied landscape, diverse ecosystems, and a temperate climate. Poland is composed of sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 million people, and the fifth largest EU country by land area, covering 312,696 km2 (120,733 sq mi). The capital and largest city is Warsaw; other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, and Gdańsk.
Text: Wikipedia — PolandCC BY-SA 4.0 · revised 2026-07-30
- Capital
- Warsaw
- Currency
- złoty (PLN)
- Official language
- Polish
- Drives on the
- Right
- Calling code
- +48
- Licence plate code
- PL
- Top-level domain
- .pl
- Independence / founding
- 11 Nov 1918
- Highest point
- Rysy (2,501 m)
- Lowest point
- Żuławy Wiślane
- Anthem
- Poland Is Not Yet Lost
- Patron saint
- Adalbert of Prague, Stanislaus of Szczepanów
The World Bank does not publish figures for Poland, so this note carries no economic or social statistics.
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- Germany$110.87B
- Czechia$25.73B
- France$25.04B
- United Kingdom$21.02B
- Netherlands$19.06B
- Italy$18.46B
- Ukraine$15.13B
- USA$12.99B
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- Spain$12.31B
- Slovakia$11.13B
- Sweden$10.89B
- Hungary$10.43B
- Belgium$9.39B
- Romania$9.29B
- Austria$8.26B
- Germany$79.68B
- China$65.17B
- USA$19.85B
- Italy$19.41B
- Netherlands$16.16B
- France$14.08B
- Czechia$13.81B
- Rep. of Korea$11.40B
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- Spain$9.06B
- Türkiye$8.87B
- Belgium$8.75B
- United Kingdom$8.64B
- Norway$8.43B
- Denmark$8.25B
- Viet Nam$7.65B
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