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The Germany–Poland border (German: Grenze zwischen Deutschland und Polen, Polish: Granica polsko-niemiecka) is the state border between Poland and Germany, mostly along the Oder–Neisse line, with a total length of 467 km (290 mi). [1] It stretches from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Czech Republic in the south.
The treaty was a border adjustment, with Poland and the Soviet Union exchanging 480 square kilometres (190 sq mi). [137] In 1951, a small area of land on Usedom Island (Polish: Uznam) was ceded from the German Democratic Republic (Eastern Germany) to Poland.
Poland's old and new borders, 1945 (Kresy in gray) Borders of Poland with length (NB: The illustrated Polish coastline is 770 km, while the borders at sea is 440 km combined). Neuwarper See (Jezioro Nowowarpieńskie), a lake divided by a border between Poland and Germany. The Borders of Poland are 3,511 km (2,182 mi) [1] or 3,582 km (2,226 mi ...
Territorial changes of the Baltic states refers to the redrawing of borders of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia after 1940. The three republics, formerly autonomous regions within the former Russian Empire and before that of former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and as provinces of the Swedish Empire, gained independence in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Map showing the different borders and territories of Poland and Germany during the 20th century, with the current areas of Germany and Poland in dark gray In March 1990, the West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl caused a storm, when he suggested that a reunified Germany would not accept the Oder–Neisse line, and implied that the Federal Republic ...
The border states were interchangeably Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and, until their annexation into the Soviet Union, short-lived Belarus and Ukraine. The policy tended to see the border states as a cordon sanitaire, [2] or buffer states, separating Western Europe from the newly formed Soviet Union. [2]
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.
The countries that have shorelines along the Baltic Sea: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Sweden. The group of countries that are members of the inter-governmental Baltic Assembly and Baltic Council of Ministers , [ 4 ] and generally referred to by the shorthand, Baltic states : [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ...