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Information about Poland

Country’s full name: The Republic of Poland

National flag: Color: top - white, bottom - redEnlarge

 

National banner: flag with national emblem - national symbol used by ships, civil air ports, diplomatic missions and consular posts

 

National emblem: White eagle in a crown against a red backgroundEnlarge

 

 

National anthem: "Mazurek Dabrowskiego"

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enlargeLanguage: Polish

 

Population: 38,132 mln in the year 2006 (based on GUS data www.stat.gov.pl )

 

Capital city: Warsaw - 1,7 mln citizens

 

The City of Warsaw 


Territory:

  • total area of the country - 312 685 km2 (120,727 sqm)
  • territorial sea - 8 622 km2

Poland is the 9th biggest country in Europe, and 63rd in the world.

Neighbouring countries (border length):

  • Russia (Kaliningrad District) (210 km)
  • Lithuania (103 km)
  • Byelorussia (416 km)
  • Ukraine (529 km)
  • Slovakia (539 km)
  • Czech Republic (790 km)
  • Germany (467 km)
  • Length of sea border  (528 km)

Total length of national border   3582 km


Monetary unit / Currency: 1 zloty (translation: “gold”) = 100 groszy

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Time: GMT/UTC plus one hour

 

Climate: continental; moderate, changeable weather.

Average temperatures:

  • January
    on the coast and the West  from 0 to -1°
    North-East    from - 4,5° to - 5,5°
    in the mountains (South)  - 7°
  • July:
    on the coast   16,5°
    in the South   19°

Average annual rainfall:  600 mm

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National Holidays:

1 May - National Holiday
3 May - National Holiday of 3rd May - the anniversary of the proclamation of Constitution of 3rd May
11 November - National Holiday of Independence - The anniversary of regaining independance by Poland

Bank Holidays:

1 January - New Year's Day
First Day of Easter
Second Day of Easter
1 May - National Holiday
3 May - National Holiday of 3rd May
Corpus Christi
15 August - The Virgin Mary Assumption
1 November - All Saints' Day
11 November - National Holiday of Independence 
25 December - Christmas Day
26 December - Boxing Day


Nobel Prize Winners:

  • Maria Sklodowska-Curie
    1903 - with her husband Piotr Curie, in physics, for discovering polonium and radium;
    1911 - in chemistry, for her work on chemical and physical characteristics of polonium and radium.
  • Henryk Sienkiewicz
    1905 - in literature
  • Wladyslaw Reymont
    1924 - in literature, for his novel „Chlopi”
  • Czeslaw Milosz
    1980 - in literature
  • Lech Walesa
    1983 - Peace Nobel Prize
  • Wislawa Szymborska
    1996 - Nobel Prize in Literature

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Information taken from „Encyklopedia Popularna PWN”
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Warszawa 1999
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Capital: Warsaw
Language: Polish
Population: 38 million
Currency: 1 zloty = 100 groszy
Area: 312,685 km2 (120,727 sqm)
Political system: Parliamentary democracy
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