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Poland: 2,788 1,732 7 7 ... Mexico – United States: 3,141 km (1,952 mi) (Mexico–United States border) Longest single segments of land borders:
A high border/area ratio means that the country or territory has a long border compared to its surface area. A border/area ratio of zero indicates that the country has no land borders. Countries or territories that are connected only by bridges or other man-made causeways are not considered to have land borders.
Border adjustment between Poland and the USSR on 16 August 1945. On August 16, 1945, a border agreement between Poland and the USSR was signed. The western portion of the Byelorussian SSR was restored to Poland. The Belastok Region was divided into Soviet Brest Region, Grodno Region and Polish Białystok Voivodeship. [128]
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) long. [ 2 ] The neighboring countries are Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and Lithuania and the Russian ...
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.
The longest rivers are the Vistula (Polish: Wisła), 1,047 kilometres (651 mi) long; the Oder (Polish: Odra) which forms part of Poland's western border, 854 kilometres (531 mi) long; its tributary, the Warta, 808 kilometres (502 mi) long; and the Bug, a tributary of the Vistula, 772 kilometres (480 mi) long. The Vistula and the Oder flow into ...
The second largest state, Texas, has only 40% of the total area of the largest state, Alaska. Rhode Island is the smallest state by total area and land area. San Bernardino County is the largest county in the contiguous U.S. and is larger than each of the nine smallest states; it is larger than the four smallest states combined.
Also included is the number of unique sovereign states [a] that a country or territory shares as neighbors. If the number is higher due to multiple dependencies or unrecognized states bordering the state, the larger number is shown in brackets. Footnotes are provided to provide clarity regarding the status of certain countries and territories.