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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.
But from 1947, Poland's territory was reduced to 312,679 square kilometres (120,726 square miles), so the country lost 73,739 square kilometres (28,471 square miles) of land. This difference amounts almost to the size of the Czech Republic, although Poland ended up with a much longer coastline on the Baltic Sea compared to its 1939 borders.
Poland's top government officials and military high command fled the war zone and arrived at the Romanian Bridgehead in mid-September. After the Soviet entry they sought refuge in Romania. [164] [165] [166] Map of Poland following the German and Soviet invasions (1939)
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; right = 30.267 Longitude at right edge of map, in decimal degrees
Poland was at the time allied with Romania and France. Two critical developments caught Poland by surprise. At the end of March 1939, Britain and France announced that if Germany invaded Poland they would declare war. In terms of helping Poland in an actual war, everyone realized they could do very little.
Polish voivodeships, 1922–1939. Administrative Map in 1939 showing April 1938 voivodship revisions and Slovak border changes. Subdivisions of the Second Polish Republic became an issue immediately after the creation of the Second Polish Republic in 1918. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth had been partitioned in the late 18th century.
In the early 19th 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.
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