About Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland is a country located in Central Europe.It is divided into 16 administrative subdivisions, covering an area of 312,696 square kilometres (120,733 sq mi), and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With a population of nearly 38.5 million people, Poland is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union. Poland’s capital and largest metropolis is Warsaw. Other major cities include Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin.

Poland is bordered by the Baltic Sea, Lithuania, and Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast to the north, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west.

Poland has a developed market and is a regional power in Central Europe, with the largest stock exchange in the East-Central European zone.It has the sixth largest economy by GDP (nominal) in the European Unionand the tenth largest in all of Europe. It’s one of the most dynamic economies in the world,simultaneously achieving a very high rank on the Human Development Index

Poland is a member state of the European Union, the Schengen Area, the United Nations, NATO, the OECD, the Three Seas Initiative, the Visegrád Group, and guested at the G20