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Eastern Poland. Ukrainian Highlands * (Wyżyny Ukraińskie) East Baltic-Belarusian Lowlands * (Niż Wschodniobałtycko-Białoruski) Historical lands of Poland against the background of modern administrative borders (names in Polish)
Similarly, the area around Radom, which historically is part of Lesser Poland, is located in the Masovian Voivodeship. Also, the Pomeranian Voivodeship includes only the eastern extreme of historical Pomerania, as the western part is in Germany and the eastern border has shifted again and again. Division of Poland into voivodeships and powiats ...
العربية; Azərbaycanca; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Cymraeg; Deutsch; Ελληνικά; Español; Esperanto; Euskara
Largest city of the entire region is Cottbus (Polish: Chociebuż, Lower Sorbian: Chóśebuz). The region was either wholly or partially ruled by Polish states in the past. It was also under Czech, German and Hungarian rule at various times. Lower Lusatia (Polish: Łużyce Dolne), eastern part is located in Poland, remainder in Germany.
Poland, [d] officially the Republic of Poland, [e] is a country in Central Europe.It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia [f] to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west.
Administrative division of Poland (from Commission on Standardization of Geographical Names Outside Poland website, in English) Archived 2006-09-25 at the Wayback Machine; Official map by Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography Archived 2007-03-11 at archive.today; Regions of Poland Archived 2010-07-26 at the Wayback Machine
Poland–Vietnam relations are the current and historical relations between Poland and Vietnam.Poland has an embassy in Hanoi and Vietnam has an embassy in Warsaw.. The relationship between these two nations can be described as special because they both share historical parallels, although they are also culturally different from one another and geographically very far apart.
Poland regained its independence in 1918 after World War I but lost it again in World War II, occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Poland lost over six million citizens in World War II, and emerged several years later as a socialist republic within the Eastern Bloc under strong Soviet influence.