Poland

Poland has a rich and eventful history, and a strong basis for its bourgeoning tourism industry. As one of Europe's most underrated countries, it offers a fair share of countryside, vibrant urbanity, pristine beauty and a culture in connection to its thousand-year history.
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Top destinations include Warsaw and Kraków.

is Poland's capital and largest city. is a bustling metropolis and one of the European Union's fastest-developing capitals and the Union's ninth most populous urban centre.

is the chief city of Province in the south of Poland and was the capital of the country during the Middle Ages. At its core is a beautifully-preserved medieval town on the banks of the River Wisła or Vistula, and it's Poland's top tourist draw.

is a city in Poland on the Baltic Sea. is considered one of the most beautiful cities on the Baltic Sea and has magnificent architecture.

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Province is in the south of Poland, on the border with . Its name is often rendered in English as "Lesser Poland". Geographically it has the heights of the Tatras Mountains, rolling countryside of woodlands and farms, and the strange depths of its salt mines.

The is one of the 16 provinces or voivodeships of Poland, in the south of the country bordering the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Much of it is industrial and densely populated, with a total of around 5 million, but there are also scenic rural uplands and mountains.

is a voivodeship in southwestern Poland, encompassing much of the historic region of Silesia in lower parts of Oder river, from which its Polish name is derived.

Pomeranian Voivodeship is a voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is . The voivodeship was established on January 1, 1999, out of the former voivodeships of Gdańsk, Elbląg and Słupsk, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1997.

Masovian Voivodeship is one of sixteen provinces of Poland. The largest city and the capital of - is also the capital of Poland.

West Pomeranian Voivodeship is a voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Its capital and largest city is . Its area equals 22,892.48 km2, and in 2021, it was inhabited by 1,682,003 people.

is a voivodeship in the west of Poland, whose name is derived from the historic and geographic region of Greater Poland. The regional capital is .

is a mountainous province in the southeastern corner of Poland. Its name, which can be rendered in English as Subcarpathian, refers to its location at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains.

Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship is a voivodeship in northeastern Poland. Its capital and largest city is . The voivodeship has an area of 24,192 km2 and in 2019 had a population of 1,425,967.

Voivodeship is a province in northeastern Poland. The vast forests and forests, some of which are the only ones in Europe have retained their original character, you can meet a unique wealth of flora and fauna.

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Lublin Voivodeship is a province of Poland. Together with the region it has a lot of Jewish heritage, especially in the capital Lublin and the area south of it. This heritage has a sombre conclusion in Majdanek, and Sobibór.

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is a province in Poland. It is situated in mid-northern Poland, on the boundary between the two historic regions from which it takes its name: Kujawy and south-eastern part of Pomorze.

is one of the 16 voivodeships of Poland. It is in the south of the country. Its name derived from its capital city, . The region has been a part of Poland since the beginning of the Polish statehood, with many remains of the ancient…

is a voivodeship in western Poland named after Lubusz Land. It is the most forested part of Poland: nearly half of its area is forest, with a few rivers and plains here and there.

Voivodeship, also known as Holy Cross Voivodeship, is a voivodeship in southeastern Poland, in the historical region of . The province's capital and largest city is .

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Łódź Voivodeship is a voivodeship of Poland. The province is named after its capital and largest city, . Łódź Voivodeship is bordered by six other voivodeships: to the north and east, to the south-east, to the south, to the south-west, to the west, and Kuyavian-Pomeranian for a short stretch to the north.
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Poland

Latitude of center
52.12° or 52° 7′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
19.38° or 19° 22′ 48″ east
Population
38,200,000
Area
312,685 km² (120,728 miles²)
Elevation
110 metres (361 feet)
Capital
Currency
Zloty (PLN)
Phone code
.pl
Internet domain
48
Open­Street­Map ID
node 432425060
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
798544
Wiki­data ID
Q36
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Poland” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: Польша
  • Achinese: Polandia
  • Adyghe: Полшэ
  • Afrikaans: Pole
  • Akan: Poland
  • Albanian: Poloni
  • Albanian: Polonia
  • Amharic: ፖላንድ
  • Amis: Poland
  • Angika: पोलैंड
  • Arabic: الجمهورية البولندية
  • Arabic: بولندا
  • Aragonese: Polonia
  • Armenian: Լեհաստան
  • Armenian: Լեհաստանի Հանրապետություն
  • Arpitan: Pologne
  • Assamese: প’লেণ্ড
  • Assamese: পোলেণ্ড
  • Asturian: Polonia
  • Asturian: República de Polonia
  • Atayal: Poland
  • Avaric: Польша
  • Aymara: Puluña
  • Azerbaijani: Polşa Respublikası
  • Azerbaijani: Polşa
  • Balinese: Polandia
  • Bambara: Poloɲi
  • Banjar: Pulandia
  • Bashkir: Польша
  • Basque: Polonia
  • Batak Mandailing: Polandia
  • Bavarian: Poin
  • Bavarian: Republik Poin
  • Belarusian: Польша
  • Belarusian: Польшча
  • Belarusian: Рэспубліка Польшча
  • Bengali: পোলস্কা
  • Bengali: পোল্যাণ্ড
  • Bengali: পোল্যান্ড প্রজাতন্ত্র
  • Bengali: পোল্যান্ড
  • Betawi: Polen
  • Bhojpuri: पोलैंड
  • Bishnupriya: পোল্যান্ড
  • Bislama: Polan
  • Bislama: Ripablik blong Polan
  • Bosnian: Poljska
  • Breton: Polonia
  • Buginese: Poland
  • Buginese: ᨄᨚᨒᨊᨉ
  • Bulgarian: Полша
  • Bulgarian: Република Полша
  • Burmese: ပိုလန်
  • Burmese: ပိုလန်နိုင်ငံ
  • Catalan: Polonia
  • Catalan: Polònia
  • Catalan: República de Polònia
  • Cebuano: Poland
  • Cebuano: Polonya
  • Cebuano: Polskowa
  • Central Bikol: Polonya
  • Central Kanuri: Poland
  • Central Kurdish: پۆلەندا
  • Central Kurdish: پۆڵەند
  • Central Kurdish: پۆڵەندا
  • Central Okinawan: ポーランドゥ
  • Chamorro: Polaki
  • Chavacano: Polonia
  • Chechen: Польша
  • Cherokee: ᏉᎳᏂ
  • Cheyenne: Poland
  • Chinese: Bōlán
  • Chinese: Pho-lân
  • Chinese: 波兰 / 波蘭
  • Chinese: 波兰
  • Chinese: 波兰共和国
  • Chinese: 波蘭
  • Chinese: 波蘭共和國
  • Church Slavic: Пол҄ьска
  • Chuvash: Польша
  • Cornish: Poloni
  • Corsican: Polonia
  • Crimean Tatar: Lehistan
  • Croatian: Poljska
  • Croatian: Republika Poljska
  • Czech: Polská republika
  • Czech: Polsko
  • Dagbani: Poland
  • Danish: Den tredje polske republik
  • Danish: Polen
  • Danish: Republikken Polen
  • Dhivehi: ޕޮލެންޑު
  • Dimli (individual language): Polonya
  • Dotyali: पोल्याण्ड
  • Dutch: Polen
  • Dutch: Republiek Polen
  • Dzongkha: པོ་ལེནཌ
  • Dzongkha: པོ་ལེནཌི
  • Eastern Mari: Польша
  • Egyptian Arabic: بولاندا
  • Erzya: Польша Мастор
  • Esperanto: Polio
  • Esperanto: Pollando
  • Esperanto: Polujo
  • Estonian: Poola Vabariik
  • Estonian: Poola
  • Estonian: Poolamaa
  • Ewe: Poland nutome
  • Ewe: Poland
  • Ewe: Pɔlisa
  • Extremaduran: Poloña
  • Faroese: Pólland
  • Fiji Hindi: Poland
  • Fijian: Poladi
  • Fijian: Poland
  • Finnish: Puola
  • Finnish: Puolan tasavalta
  • French: la République de Pologne
  • French: Pol.
  • French: Pologne
  • French: République de Pologne
  • French: République polonaise
  • Friulian: Polonie
  • Fulah: Poloñ
  • Fulah: Poloonya
  • Gagauz: Polşa
  • Galician: Polonia
  • Galician: República de Polonia
  • Gan Chinese: 波蘭
  • Ganda: Bupoolo
  • Ganda: Polandi
  • Georgian: პოლონეთი
  • German: Polen
  • German: Republik Polen
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Poland
  • Gilaki: لهستان
  • Goan Konkani: Poland
  • Goan Konkani: पोलंड
  • Gorontalo: Polandia
  • Gothic: 𐍀𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌹𐌰
  • Gothic: 𐍀𐍉𐌻𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳
  • Greek: Δημοκρατία της Πολωνίας
  • Greek: Πολωνία
  • Guarani: Poloña
  • Guarani: Polóña
  • Guianese Creole French: Pològn
  • Gujarati: પોલેંડ
  • Haitian: Polòy
  • Hakka Chinese: Pô-làn
  • Hausa: Polan
  • Hausa: Poland
  • Hawaiian: Pōlani
  • Hebrew: פולין
  • Hebrew: פולניה
  • Hiligaynon: Polonya
  • Hindi: पोलैंड
  • Hungarian: Lengyelország
  • Iban: Poland
  • Icelandic: Pólland
  • Ido: Polonia
  • Igbo: Poland
  • Iloko: Polandia
  • Iloko: Polonia
  • Inari Sami: Puola täsiväldi
  • Inari Sami: Puola
  • Indonesian: Polandia
  • Indonesian: Republik Polandia
  • Ingush: Полхехье
  • Ingush: Польша
  • Interlingua: Polonia
  • Interlingue: Polonia
  • Inuktitut: ᐳᓚᓐᑦ
  • Inupiaq: Poland
  • Inupiaq: Puulan
  • Irish: an Pholainn
  • Irish: An Pholainn
  • Irish: Poblacht na Polainne
  • Irish: Polainn
  • Italian: Polonia
  • Italian: Repubblica di Polonia
  • Jamaican Creole English: Puolan
  • Japanese: ポーランド
  • Japanese: ポーランド共和国
  • Japanese:
  • Japanese: 波蘭
  • Javanese: Polandia
  • Javanese: Polen
  • Kabardian: Лахь жылэ
  • Kabardian: Лэхьый
  • Kabiyè: Pɔlɔɔñɩ
  • Kabuverdianu: Pulónia
  • Kabyle: Bulunda
  • Kabyle: Pulunya
  • Kadazan Dusun: Poland
  • Kalaallisut: Poleni
  • Kalmyk: Польшин Орн
  • Kannada: ಪೋಲೆಂಡ್
  • Kannada: ಪೋಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್
  • Kara-Kalpak: Polsha
  • Karachay-Balkar: Польша
  • Kashmiri: پولینڈ
  • Kashmiri: پولینڑ
  • Kashubian: Pòlskô
  • Kazakh: Польша
  • Khmer: ប៉ូឡូញ
  • Khmer: ប្រទេសប៉ូឡូញ
  • Kikuyu: Borandi
  • Kikuyu: Poland
  • Kikuyu: Polandi
  • Kinyarwanda: Polonye
  • Kirghiz: Польша
  • Kölsch: Pole
  • Komering: Polandia
  • Komering: Pulandiya
  • Komi-Permyak: Польска
  • Komi: Польша
  • Kongo: Pologne
  • Korean: 뽈스까
  • Korean: 폴란드 공화국
  • Korean: 폴란드
  • Kotava: Polska
  • Kurdish: Polonya
  • Kurdish: پۆڵەندا
  • Ladin: Polonia
  • Ladino: Polonia
  • Lak: Польша
  • Lao: ປະເທດໂປໂລຍ
  • Lao: ໂປແລນ
  • Latgalian: Puoleja
  • Latin: Polonia
  • Latvian: Polija
  • Lezghian: Польша
  • Ligurian: Polonia
  • Ligurian: Polònia
  • Limburgan: Pole
  • Lingala: Poloni
  • Lingua Franca Nova: Polsca
  • Literary Chinese: 波蘭
  • Literary Chinese: 波蘭共和國
  • Lithuanian: Lenkija
  • Liv: Pūoļmō
  • Livvi: Pol’šu
  • Lojban: polskas
  • Lombard: Polonia
  • Lombard: Polònia
  • Low German: Polen
  • Low German: Pooln
  • Lower Silesian: Poln
  • Lower Silesian: Pullakei
  • Lower Sorbian: Pólska
  • Luba-Katanga: Mpoloni
  • Luxembourgish: Polen
  • Macedo-Romanian: Poland
  • Macedo-Romanian: Polandia
  • Macedo-Romanian: Polonia
  • Macedonian: Полска
  • Madurese: Polandia
  • Maithili: पोल्यान्ड
  • Malagasy: Pôlôna
  • Malagasy: Polonia
  • Malagasy: Pôlônia
  • Malay: Poland
  • Malay: ڤولند
  • Malayalam: പോളണ്ട്
  • Maltese: il-Polonja
  • Maltese: Polonja
  • Maltese: Repubblika tal-Polonja
  • Manipuri: ꯄꯣꯂꯦꯟ
  • Manx: y Pholynn
  • Manx: Yn Pholynn
  • Maori: Pōrana
  • Marathi: पोलंड
  • Mazanderani: لهستون
  • Min Dong Chinese: Pŏ̤-làng
  • Min Nan Chinese: Pho-lân Kiōng-hô-kok
  • Min Nan Chinese: Pho-lân
  • Minangkabau: Polandia
  • Mingrelian: პოლონეთი
  • Mirandese: Polónia
  • Moksha: Полень мастор
  • Moksha: Польска мастор
  • Mongolian: Польш
  • Moroccan Arabic: پولونيا
  • Mossi: Poland
  • N'Ko: ߔߏߟߐ߲ߢ
  • Narom: Polongne
  • Nauru: Poran
  • Navajo: Haltso Hóteelnii Bikéyah
  • Navajo: Póolish Dineʼé Bikéyah
  • Neapolitan: Pulonnia
  • Nepali: पोल्याण्ड
  • Nepali: पोल्यान्ड
  • Newari: पोल्याण्ड
  • North Ndebele: Pholandi
  • Northern Frisian: Poolen/fe
  • Northern Frisian: Poolen
  • Northern Luri: لهستان
  • Northern Sami: Polen
  • Northern Sami: Polska dásseváldi
  • Northern Sami: Polska
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Polen
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Polen
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Polen
  • Norwegian: Polen
  • Novial: Polonia
  • Nyanja: Poland
  • Obolo: Polan
  • Occitan (post 1500): Polonha
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܦܘܠܢܕ
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Polaland
  • Oriya: ପୋଲାଣ୍ଡ
  • Oromo: Poolaandi
  • Ossetian: Польшæ
  • Pa'o Karen: ပိုလန်ခမ်းထီ
  • Pali: पोलैंड
  • Pampanga: Polonia
  • Pampanga: Polonya
  • Pangasinan: Polen
  • Pangasinan: Polonya
  • Panjabi: ਪੋਲੈਂਡ
  • Papiamento: Polonia
  • Pedi: Poland
  • Pennsylvania German: Polen
  • Persian: اتریش
  • Persian: پولند
  • Persian: لهستان
  • Persian: لهستانی
  • Pfaelzisch: Pole
  • Pfaelzisch: Polen
  • Picard: Polonne
  • Piemontese: Polònia
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: Poeland
  • Polish: PL
  • Polish: POL
  • Polish: Polska
  • Polish: RP
  • Polish: Rzeczpospolita Polska
  • Pontic: Πολωνία
  • Portuguese: Polónia
  • Portuguese: Polônia
  • Portuguese: República da Polónia
  • Portuguese: República da Polônia
  • Prussian: Pōli
  • Pushto: پولنډ
  • Quechua: Polonia
  • Quechua: Pulska
  • Quechua: Pulunya
  • Romanian: Polonia
  • Romanian: Republica Polonia
  • Romanian: Полония
  • Romansh: Pologna
  • Rundi: Pologne
  • Rundi: Polonia
  • Rundi: Polonye
  • Russia Buriat: Польш
  • Russia Buriat: Польшо
  • Russian: Польша
  • Russian: Польше
  • Russian: Польшу
  • Russian: Республика Польша
  • Rusyn: Польско
  • Sakizaya: Poland
  • Samoan: Polagi
  • Samoan: Polani
  • Samogitian: Lenkėjė
  • Samogitian: Lėnkėjė
  • Samogitian: Lenkija
  • Sango: Pölôni
  • Sanskrit: पोलॅण्ड्
  • Sanskrit: पोलैंड
  • Santali: ᱯᱳᱞᱮᱱᱰ
  • Saraiki: پولینڈ
  • Sardinian: Polonia
  • Sardinian: Polònia
  • Saterfriesisch: Polen
  • Scots: Poland
  • Scottish Gaelic: A Phòlainn
  • Scottish Gaelic: A‘ Phòlainn
  • Scottish Gaelic: A’ Phòlainn
  • Serbian: Poljska
  • Serbian: Пољска
  • Serbo-Croatian: Poljska
  • Shan: မိူင်းပူဝ်ႇလႅၼ်ႇ
  • Shona: Poland
  • Shona: Polandi
  • Sicilian: Pulonia
  • Sicilian: Pulònia
  • Silesian: PL
  • Silesian: POL
  • Silesian: Polska
  • Silesian: Polsko
  • Silesian: Republika Polskŏ
  • Silesian: RP
  • Sindhi: پولينڊ
  • Sinhala: පෝලන්තය
  • Skolt Sami: Puola tääʹssväʹldd
  • Skolt Sami: Puola
  • Slovak: Poľská republika
  • Slovak: Poľsko
  • Slovenian: Poljska
  • Somali: Boland
  • Somali: Booland
  • South Azerbaijani: لهیستان
  • Southern Sami: Påålen
  • Southern Sotho: Poland
  • Spanish: Polonia
  • Spanish: República de Polonia
  • Sranan Tongo: Polikondre
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⴱⵓⵍⴰⵏⴷⴰ
  • Sundanese: Polandia
  • Swahili: Poland
  • Swahili: Polandi
  • Swati: IPholandi
  • Swedish: Polen
  • Swedish: Republiken Polen
  • Swiss German: Pole
  • Swiss German: Polen
  • Sylheti:
  • Sylheti: ꠙꠟꠦꠘ꠆ꠒ
  • Tachelhit: Bulunya
  • Tachelhit: Pulandya
  • Tagalog: poland
  • Tagalog: Poland
  • Tagalog: Polonia
  • Tagalog: Polonya
  • Tahitian: Pōrana
  • Tajik: Лаҳистон
  • Talysh: Polša
  • Tamil: போலந்து
  • Taroko: Poland
  • Taroko: Poran
  • Tatar: Pülşä
  • Tatar: Польша Җөмһүрияте
  • Tatar: Польша Җөмһүрияте́
  • Tatar: Польша
  • Telugu: PL
  • Telugu: పోలాండ్
  • Tetum: Polónia
  • Thai: Poland
  • Thai: ประเทศโปแลนด์
  • Thai: โปแลนด์
  • Thai: สาธารณรัฐโปแลนด์
  • Tibetan: པོ་ལནྜ།
  • Tibetan: ཕོ་ལན།
  • Tigrinya: ፖላንድ
  • Tok Pisin: Polan
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): Polani
  • Tosk Albanian: Polen
  • Tsonga: Poland
  • Tsonga: Polendi
  • Tumbuka: Poland
  • Tunisian Arabic: پولونيا
  • Turkish: Polonya Cumhuriyeti
  • Turkish: Polonya
  • Turkmen: Polşa
  • Tuvinian: Польша
  • Twi: Poland
  • Tyap: Polan
  • Tyap: Poli̱si̱ka
  • Udmurt: Польша
  • Uighur: پولشا
  • Uighur: لەھىستان
  • Ukrainian: Польща
  • Ukrainian: Республіка Польща
  • Upper Sorbian: Pólska
  • Urdu: پولینڈ
  • Uzbek: Polsha
  • Venda: Poland
  • Venetian: Połònia
  • Veps: Pol’šanma
  • Vietnamese: Ba Lan
  • Vietnamese: Cộng hoà Ba Lan
  • Vietnamese: Cộng hòa Ba Lan
  • Vlaams: Pooln
  • Vlax Romani: Polska
  • Volapük: Polän
  • Võro: Poola
  • Walloon: Pologne
  • Waray (Philippines): Polonya
  • Welsh: Gwlad Pwyl
  • West Coast Bajau: Poland
  • Western Armenian: Լեհաստան
  • Western Armenian: Փոլոնիա
  • Western Balochi: پولنڈ
  • Western Frisian: Poalen
  • Western Frisian: Polen
  • Western Mari: Польша
  • Western Panjabi: پولینڈ
  • Wolof: Poloñ
  • Wu Chinese: 波兰
  • Xhosa: IPoland
  • Yakut: Польша
  • Yiddish: פוילן
  • Yiddish: פּוילן
  • Yoruba: Polandi
  • Yoruba: Pólándì
  • Yoruba: Pólàndì
  • Yue Chinese: Poland
  • Yue Chinese: Republic of Poland
  • Yue Chinese: 波兰
  • Yue Chinese: 波蘭
  • Zeeuws: Poôl’n
  • Zhuang: Bohlanz
  • Zulu: i-Poland
  • Zulu: IPolandi
  • Lėnkėjė
  • ma Polaka
  • ma Posuka
  • ma Posuki
  • PL
  • POL
  • Polandia
  • Polonia
  • Poloniah
  • Poloniah Axkayotl
  • Polonie
  • Poola
  • Pulógna
  • Pulonie
  • Pulunii
  • Полония
  • Польска
  • Република Польска
  • पोलैंड

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Poland”. Photo: Sicherlich, CC BY 3.0.