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10 key facts about Poland

  1. Poland is the 9th biggest country in Europe and it shares frontiers with seven countries: Russia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Germany.
  2. Geographically, Poland is not in the Eastern Europe. Like Austria and Czech Republic, it is in the very center of Europe.
  3. Poland is a country that serves as the geographical and cultural crossroads of Eastern and Western Europe.
  4. Poland is an ancient nation that was conceived near the middle of the 10th century.
  5. The population of Poland is about 39 million.
  6. Labor turmoil in 1980 led to the formation of the independent trade union "Solidarity" that over time became a political force and by 1990 had swept parliamentary elections and the presidency after years of communism and domination by Soviet Union.
  7. During the early 1990s country transformed its economy into one of the most robust in Central Europe.
  8. Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004.
  9. Poland is a predominantly Roman Catholic nation and the church plays a very important role in its life.
  10. Famous Poles include: astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, composer Fryderyk Chopin, scientist Maria Curie – Skłodowska, pope, John Paul II, contemporary composers Krzysztof Penderecki and Mikołaj Górecki, contemporary directors Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Roman Polański, Andrzej Żuławski and Jerzy Skolimowski, world famous sculptor Alina Szapocznikow and Nobel Prize winners: Władysław Reymont, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Lech Wałęsa, Czesław Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska, Olga Tokarczuk.

 

 

The Project is financed by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange under the SPINAKER Programme.

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