Information about Poland

Country’s full name: The Republic of Poland

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

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 background

National anthem: "Mazurek Dabrowskiego"

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Language: 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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