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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 ...
Major cities normally have the status of both gmina and powiat. Poland currently has 16 voivodeships, 380 powiats (including 66 cities with powiat status), and 2,478 gminas. [1] The current system was introduced pursuant to a series of acts passed by the Polish parliament in 1998, and came into effect on
A map showing the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at its maximum extent following the Truce of Деулино, superimposed on present-day national borders. The map shows in red all of the territory that was ruled by Zygmunt III Waza in 1619 (the Polish monarch at that time), which made up the Commonwealth; it can be further divided up into:
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Poland's current voivodeships (provinces) are largely based on the country's historic regions, whereas those of the past two decades (to 1998) had been centred on and named for individual cities. The new units range in area from less than 10,000 square kilometres (3,900 sq mi) for Opole Voivodeship to more than 35,000 square kilometres (14,000 ...
On May 20, 1945, in Trstena an agreement for a return to the 1938 borders of Poland was signed and the following day the Czechoslovak border guards moved to the old Czechoslovak border. At several places there were fights between Polish and Czechoslovak militias, but the situation calmed with the arrival of Polish troops on July 17, 1945. [ 131 ]
Those cities had not been destroyed during the war. They were relatively closer to the new eastern border of Poland, which could become significant in case of a sudden hoped for a return to the East. [19] Frequently, whole Kresy villages and towns were deported in a single rail transport to new locations in the west.
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.