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The Borders of Poland are 3,511 km (2,182 mi) [1] or 3,582 km (2,226 mi) long. [2] The neighboring countries are Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and Lithuania and the Russian province of Kaliningrad Oblast to the northeast.
Seven countries border Poland that it shares its land boundaries. These are Germany, Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Belarus. The Poland-Czech Republic border is the longest of the bordering countries, while the Poland-Lithuania border is the shortest.
Poland shares a land border with 7 countries. It borders Russian province of Kaliningrad Oblast to the north; Lithuania to the northeast; Belarus and Ukraine to the east; Solvakia and the Czech Republic to the south; and Germany to the west. 7 international land borders of Poland A map showing bordering countries of Poland
Poland is a country in Central Europe [1][2] bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north.
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.
Poland is bordered by 7 nations: by Germany in the west; the Czech Republic in the southwest; Slovakia in the south; Ukraine in the southeast; Belarus in the east; Lithuania and Russia in the northeast.
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. Poland’s capital city is Warsaw, and other important cities include Krakow and Gdansk.
The map below traces the history of Poland’s borders from 1635 right through to the present day. Watch as the borders shrink from their peak during the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to the partitions of Poland at the end of the 18th century to the massive shift west during the 20th.
To the south of the lake district, and across central Poland a vast region of plains stretches all the way to the Sudetes on the Czech and German borders southwest, and to the Carpathians on the Czech, Slovak and Ukrainian borders southeast.
The new borders, drawn at the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences, meant Poland lost about 179,000 square kilometres (69,000 square miles) of territory in the east, which was incorporated into the Soviet Union.