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The Poland–Russia border is 232 km long between Poland and Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, which is an exclave, unconnected to the rest of Russia due to the Lithuania–Russia border. [12] For most of this length, the Polish side is in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship ; the extreme east is in the Podlaskie Voivodeship , and the westernmost ...
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 ...
Poland and the Russian Federation have an agreement whereby residents of Kaliningrad and the Polish cities of Olsztyn, Elbląg and Gdańsk may obtain "small border traffic" cards permitting repeated travel between the two countries, crossing the Polish–Russian border. As of July 2013, Poland had issued 100,000 of the cards. [104]
The oblast is mainly flat, as the highest point is the 230 m (750 ft) Gora Dozor hill near the tripoint of the Poland–Russia border/Lithuania–Russia border. [ 77 ] As a semi-exclave of Russia, it is surrounded by Poland ( Pomeranian and Warmian-Masurian Voivodeships ), Lithuania ( Klaipėda , Marijampolė , and Tauragė Counties ) and the ...
Russian guards at the Poland-Russia border on the Vistula Spit. Situated in the Gdańsk Bay this narrow headland (spit) is on average only few hundred meters wide (widest point is 1.8 km (1.1 mi)) and with the total length of 70 km (43 mi) twice as long as the better known and more populous Hel Peninsula in the western part of the Gdańsk Bay.
Lithuania Russia: Length: 297.1 km (184.6 mi), including the 22.2 km (13.8 mi) sea border [1] History; Established: 1945: Current shape: 24 October 1997: Treaties: Treaty between the Republic of Lithuania and the Russian Federation concerning the State Border between Lithuania and Russia (1997) [2]
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Modern borders of Russia with the years that the corresponding portions of the border have continuously belonged to Russia since. Russia shares land borders with 14 countries owing to its large expanse, tied with China in being more than any other state in the world, but there are sea boundaries with two more countries.