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The Republic of Poland is a country located in Central Europe, between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and Russia (in the form of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave) to the north.
Living in Poland
In 1999 Poland became a part of NATO and in 2004 it joined the European Union. Poland formerly played host to many languages, cultures and religions. However, the outcome of World War II and the following shift westwards to the area between the Curzon line and the Oder-Neisse line gave Poland an appearance of homogeneity. Today 36,983,700 people, or 96.74% of the population considers itself Polish (Census 2002), 471,500 (1.23%) declared another nationality. 774,900 people (2.03%) didn't declare any nationality. The officially recognised ethnic minorities include: Germans, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Jews and Belarusians. The Polish language, a member of the West Slavic branch of the Slavic languages, functions as the official language of Poland. Most Poles adhere to the Roman Catholic faith, and 75% count as practising Catholics. The rest of the population consists mainly of Jewish, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant religious minorities.
Climate Poland
Poland enjoys a temperate climate, with cold, cloudy, moderately severe winters and mild summers with frequent showers and thunder showers.
Regions Poland
Poland is subdivided into sixteen administrative regions known as voivodships (województwa, singular - województwo):
- Voivodship Capital city (cities)
- Greater Poland Voivodship (Wielkopolskie) Poznan
- Cuiavian-Pomeranian Voivodship (Kujawsko-Pomorskie) Bydgoszcz and Torun
- Lesser Poland Voivodship (Malopolskie) Kraków
- Lódz Voivodship (Lódzkie) Lódz
- Lower Silesian Voivodship (Dolnoslaskie) Wroclaw
- Lubusz Voivodship (Lubuskie) Gorzów Wielkopolski and Zielona Góra
- Masovian Voivodship (Mazowieckie) Warsaw
- Opole Voivodship (Opolskie) Opole
- Podlasie Voivodship (Podlaskie) Bialystok
- Pomeranian Voivodship (Pomorskie) Gdansk
- Silesian Voivodship (Slaskie) Katowice
- Subcarpathian Voivodship (Podkarpackie) Rzeszów
- Swietokrzyskie Voivodship (Swietokrzyskie) Kielce
- Warmian-Masurian Voivodship (Warminsko-Mazurskie) Olsztyn
- West Pomeranian Voivodship (Zachodniopomorskie) Szczecin
Lower levels of administrative division are:
Powiats (counties)
Gminas (commune)
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