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Galicia (/ ɡ ə ˈ l ɪ ʃ (i) ə / gə-LISH-(ee-)ə; [1] Polish: Galicja, IPA: [ɡaˈlit͡sja] ⓘ; Ukrainian: Галичина, romanized: Halychyna, IPA: [ɦɐlɪtʃɪˈnɑ]; Yiddish: גאַליציע, romanized: Galitsye; see below) is a historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, long part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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 ...
Polesia, also called Polissia, Polesie, or Polesye, [a] is a natural (geographic) and historical region in Eastern Europe within the bigger East European Plain, including part of eastern Poland and the Belarus–Ukraine border region. [2] This region should not be confused with parts of Russia also traditionally called "Polesie".
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.
(Transborder regions = *) Northern & Western Poland. Central European Plain* (Nizina Środkowoeuropejska) Silesia* Pomerania* Southern Poland. Bohemian Massif* (Masyw Czeski) Polish Highlands (Wyżyny Polskie) Sandomierz Basin (Kotlina Sandomierska) Subcarpathia* Western Subcarpathia * (Podkarpacie Zachodnie)
The dissolution of the Soviet Union into a number of post-Soviet states transformed the Poland-Soviet border into the chain of Poland-Russia, Poland-Lithuania, Poland-Belarus and Poland–Ukraine borders. [10] Poland and Ukraine have confirmed the border on 18 May 1992. [11] It is the longest of Polish eastern borders. [12]
At that time, Poland had fought three wars to establish its eastern frontier: with Ukraine, Lithuania and Soviet Russia. In all three conflicts, Poland made territorial conquests, and as a result, it seized territories east of the Curzon line that were previously conquered by Russia, in addition to the land formerly part of the Austrian Galicia.
Ukraine borders seven countries: Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Russia, and Belarus, following the original borders demarcated by the Soviet Union. [2] [3] The total length of the Ukrainian border is 6,992.98 km (4,345.24 mi). [4] The area of the exclusive economic zone of Ukraine is 72,658 km 2 (28,053 sq mi).