Back التطور الإقليمي لبولندا Arabic Εδαφική εξέλιξη της Πολωνίας Greek Puolan aluemuutokset Finnish Évolution territoriale de la Pologne French Evolusi teritorial Polandia ID Evoluzione territoriale della Polonia Italian Korekty granic Polski Polish Evoluția teritorială a Poloniei Romanian
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Poland is a country in Central Europe[1][2] bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. The total area of Poland is 312,679 square kilometres (120,726 sq mi),[3] making it the 69th largest country in the world and the ninth largest in Europe.
From a nucleus between the Oder and Vistula rivers on the North-Central European Plain, Poland has at its largest extent expanded as far as the Baltic, the Dnieper and the Carpathians, while in periods of weakness it has shrunk drastically or even ceased to exist.[4]
- ^ UN Statistics Archived 2009-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ CIA Factbook
- ^ "Concise Statistical Yearbook of Poland, 2008" (PDF). Central Statistical Office (Poland). 28 July 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-12.
- ^ Davies, Norman (2005). God's Playground. A History of Poland. Volume I: The Origins to 1795. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 23.
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