Country guide
Poland
Capital, flag, borders and quick geography facts for Poland.
Key facts
- Capital
- Warsaw
- Region
- Europe
- Area
- 312,679 km²
- Population
- 37,392,000
Neighboring countries
Poland has 7 land neighbors in the country data.
Learn Poland
Warsaw is the capital of Poland. Poland has the world's largest castle by land area.
Poland covers 312,679 square kilometers and borders Belarus, Czechia, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine. The Wieliczka Salt Mine near Kraków produced salt continuously for over 700 years, from the 13th century until 1996.
Poland's Białowieża Forest holds the world's largest free-living population of European bison, the continent's heaviest land animal.
Trivia
- Poland is home to the world's largest castle by land area.
- Białowieża Forest is one of the last and largest remaining parts of the primeval forest that once stretched across the European Plain.
- The Wieliczka Salt Mine near Kraków was worked continuously from the 13th century until 1996, making it one of the world's oldest salt mines.
- Poland's Białowieża Forest holds the world's largest free-living population of European bison, the continent's heaviest land animal.
- Kraków's Main Market Square, laid out in the 13th century with sides just over 200 meters long, is one of the largest medieval market squares in Europe.
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