Quick Facts
Capital: Warsaw
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Anthem: Mazurek Dąbrowskiego
Total Area: 312,685 km² (sq km)
- Land Size: 304,465 km²
- Water Area: 8,220 km²
Shares borders with: Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Lithuania, and Russia
Population: 38 million
Ethnic Groups: 96.7% Polish, 3.3% others
Life Expectancy: 69 years for men, 78 years for women
Government Type: Parliamentary Democracy
- President - Bronisław Komorowski,
- Prime Minister - Donald Tusk
Currency: 1 USD = 2.9 Polish zloty (PLN), exchange rate for:
- 2008 – 2,4 PLN
- 2009 – 3,12 PLN
- 2010 – 3,02 PLN
GDP (PPP): 5,4% per capita in 2004, 5,1% in 2009 estimate
- Total: $727.086 billion
- Per capita $18,705
Drives on the: right
Cars license plate: PL
Telephone country prefix: 48
Internet country code: .pl
Natural Resources: hard and brown coal, copper, zinc, lead, sulphur, rock salt and construction minerals
Climate: oceanic in the north and west and continental towards the south and east. Summers are warm, with temperatures between 17 °C (63 °F) and 20 °C (68.0 °F). Winters are cold, with average temperatures between 3 °C (37.4 °F) and −6 °C (21.2 °F).
Administrative divisions: Poland currently has 16 voivodeships (provinces). The voivodeships are subdivided into 379 powiats (often referred to in English as counties), and these are further divided into 2,478 gminas (also known as communes or municipalities)
