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2 days ago · Poland’s capital city is Warsaw, and other important cities include Krakow and Gdansk. Poland | History, Flag, Map, Population, President, Religion, & Facts | Britannica Poland, a country of central Europe, is located at a geographic crossroads that links the forested lands of northwestern Europe and the sea lanes of the Atlantic Ocean to the fertile plains of the Eurasian frontier.
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3 days ago · Topographic map of Poland. Poland covers an administrative area of 312,722 km 2 (120,743 sq mi), and is the ninth-largest country in Europe. Approximately 311,895 km 2 (120,423 sq mi) of the country's territory consists of land, 2,041 km 2 (788 sq mi) comprises internal waters and 8,783 km 2 (3,391 sq mi) is territorial sea.
3 days ago · Poland - Baltic Sea, Carpathians, Vistula: Poland lies at the physical centre of the European continent, approximately between latitudes 49° and 55° N and longitudes 14° and 24° E. Irregularly circular in shape, it is bordered to the north by the Baltic Sea, to the northeast by Russia and Lithuania, and to the east by Belarus and Ukraine.
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2 days ago · Territorial history. In 1492, the territory of Poland-Lithuania – not counting the fiefs of Mazovia, Moldavia, and Prussia – covered 1,115,000 km 2 (431,000 sq mi), making it the largest territory in Europe; by 1793, it had fallen to 215,000 km 2 (83,000 sq mi), the same size as Great Britain, and in 1795, it disappeared completely. [4]
5 days ago · The Library of Congress houses one of the world's largest and most diverse collections of Polish cartographic materials. The Geography and Map Division has custody of 2,750-3,000 single maps filed as Polish. A precise shelf count of all single and serial maps relating to Poland would be an impractical undertaking and would yield ambiguous results.
1 day ago · Warsaw lies in east-central Poland about 300 km (190 mi) from the Carpathian Mountains and about 260 km (160 mi) from the Baltic Sea, 523 km (325 mi) east of Berlin, Germany. [77] The city straddles the Vistula River. It is located in the heartland of the Masovian Plain, and its average elevation is 100 m (330 ft) above sea level.
3 days ago · Poland is a stable parliamentary and free-market democracy, and a member of the European Union and NATO. Crime While Poland generally has a low rate of violent crime, the incidence of street crime, which sometimes involves violence, is moderate. Major cities have higher rates of crime against residents and foreign visitors than other areas.
