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Poland is a member of the European Union, NATO, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Poland currently has a population of over 38 million people, [3] which makes it the 34th most populous country in the world [18] and one of the most populous members of the European Union.
In the early nineteenth century, Poland observed UTC+01:24 as it was the time corresponding to the offset of their local mean time at the Warsaw meridian, which was also known as Warsaw mean time. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Warsaw switched to CET on 5 August 1915, [ 4 ] and the rest of Poland officially adopted CET on 31 May 1922.
name = Poland Name used in the default map caption; image = Rzeczpospolita 1937 noname noriver.png The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 59.583 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 47.567 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = 13.56 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees ...
UTC−07:00 (Zone 3 or Pacific Zone) – States of Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora UTC−06:00 (Zone 2 or Central Zone) – Most of Mexico UTC−05:00 (Zone 1 or Southeast Zone) – State of Quintana Roo
The Oder–Neisse line Poland's old and new borders, 1945. At the end of World War II, Poland underwent major changes to the location of its international border. In 1945, after the defeat of Nazi Germany, the Oder–Neisse line became its western border, [1] resulting in gaining the Recovered Territories from Germany.
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Before the Nazi German invasion in September 1939 and the subsequent annexation in October, the territories held up to 10,568,000 people or some 30% of pre-1939 Poland's population. [ 10 ] [ 25 ] Due to flights, war losses, natural migration and the lack of contemporary reliable data, demographics especially in the border regions can only be ...
By the end of the Polish Defensive War the Soviet Union had taken over 52.1% of the territory of Poland (circa 200,000 km 2), with over 13,700,000 people.The estimates vary; Professor Elżbieta Trela-Mazur gives the following numbers in regards to the ethnic composition of these areas: 38% Poles (ca. 5.1 million people), 37% Ukrainians, 14.5% Belarusians, 8.4% Jews, 0.9% Russians and 0.6% Germans.