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Polish regions are regions that are in present-day Poland but are not identified in its ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...
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.
Black Sea region; The Black Sea nations (although some sections lie within Asia) are: Abkhazia (de facto state), Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine [citation needed] Caspian Sea region; The world's largest lake which forms a section of the Asian-European border has five countries occupying its shore.
EU's G6 - France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom - countries with largest populations and thus the majority of votes in the Council of the European Union Group of Seven (G7): Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, the seven major advanced economies as reported by the International ...
The Polish coastline was estimated at 770 km (478 mi) in length. [2] Poland's highest point is Rysy, at 2,500 m (8,202 ft). [3] Geographically, Poland is a diverse country; although most of the central terrain is flat, there is an abundance of lakes, rivers, hills, swamps, beaches, islands and forests elsewhere.
The Polish people of the region wanted to join the Second Polish Republic, which had been established following World War I. The 1919 Treaty of Versailles had called for a plebiscite in Upper Silesia in 1921 to determine whether the territory should be a part of Germany or Poland.
Poland lost over six million citizens in World War II, and emerged several years later as a socialist republic within the Eastern Bloc under strong Soviet influence. In 1989 communist rule was overthrown and Poland became what is constitutionally known as the "Third Polish Republic".
People by region in Poland (5 C) S. Silesia (8 C, 17 P) ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.