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Poland
Republic of Poland ยท Polska
Europe
ยท Eastern Europe
0Population
312.68Kkmยฒ of land
$15.69KGDP / person
WarsawCapital
- ISO codes
- PL ยท POL
- Density
- 121 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Polish
- Currency
- Polish zลoty (PLN)
- Dial code
- +48
- Internet domain
- .pl
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 51.9900ยฐ N, 19.4900ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Polish
- UN region
- Eastern Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $595.86B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 7
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By the numbers
How Poland stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
38th
of 242 ยท 0.49% of world population
Land area
72nd
of 242 ยท 0.21% of world land
GDP per person
83rd
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
89th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Poland
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 37,970,874 people, the 38th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.49 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 312,679 kmยฒ, making it the 72nd largest country here - about 10.2 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 121 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Warsaw, at 52.25ยฐ N, 21.00ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,707,000.
Shares land borders with 7 countries: Belarus, Czechia, Germany, Lithuania and Russia (and 2 more).
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Warsaw.
The currency is the Polish zลoty (PLN, symbol zล).
The official language is Polish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Europe/Warsaw
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UTC+02:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Warsaw
Masovian
52.2519ยฐ N, 20.9981ยฐ E
1.71M
2
Krakรณw
Lesser Poland
50.0619ยฐ N, 19.9581ยฐ E
756K
3
Gdaลsk
Pomeranian
54.3600ยฐ N, 18.6400ยฐ E
740K
Land neighbours
7 countries share a border with Poland.