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Republic of Poland Rzeczpospolita Polska (Polish) Flag Coat of arms Anthem: "Mazurek Dąbrowskiego" [a] ("Poland Is Not Yet Lost") Show globe Show map of Europe Location of Poland (dark green) – in Europe (green & dark grey) – in the European Union (green) – [Legend] Capital and largest city Warsaw 52°13′N 21°02′E / 52.217°N 21.033°E / 52.217; 21.033 Official language ...
Map of Poland. This is a list of cities and towns in Poland, consisting of four sections: the full list of all 107 cities in Poland by size, followed by a description of the principal metropolitan areas of the country, the table of the most populated cities and towns in Poland, and finally, the full alphabetical list of all 107 Polish cities and 861 towns combined.
Polish is the most widely-used minority language in Lithuania's Vilnius County, by 26% of the population, according to the 2001 census results, as Vilnius was part of Poland from 1922 until 1939. Polish is found elsewhere in southeastern Lithuania.
Culture of Poland. The languages of Poland include Polish – the language of the indigenous population – and those of immigrants and their descendants. Polish is the only official language recognized by the country's constitution and the majority of the country's population speak it as a native language or use it for home communication.
The Polish Wikipedia ( Polish: Wikipedia Polskojęzyczna) is the Polish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. Founded on September 26, 2001, it now has more than 1,621,000 articles, making it the 11th-largest Wikipedia edition overall. [1] It is also the second-largest edition in a Slavic language, after the Russian Wikipedia .
As of 2021, there are 17 World Heritages Sites in Poland, [4] 15 of which are cultural, and two are natural sites. The first two sites inscribed on the World Heritage List were Wieliczka Salt Mine and Historic Centre of Kraków, in 1978. The most recent addition is the Bieszczady National Park as an extension to the Ancient and Primeval Beech ...
The Polish alphabet ( Polish: alfabet polski, abecadło) is the script of the Polish language, the basis for the Polish system of orthography. It is based on the Latin alphabet but includes certain letters with diacritics: the acute accent ( kreska; ć, ń, ó, ś, ź ); the overdot ( kropka; ż ); the tail or ogonek ( ą, ę ); and the stroke ...
Poland is a country in Central Europe, bordered by Germany to the west, the Czech Republic to the southwest, Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, Lithuania to the northeast, and the Baltic Sea and Russia 's Kaliningrad Oblast to the north. It is an ancient nation whose history as a state began near the middle of the 10th century.