Poland
Republic of Poland
Rzeczpospolita Polska
CAPITAL: Warsaw (Warszawa)
FLAG: The national flag consists of two horizontal stripes, the upper white and the lower red.
ANTHEM: Jeszcze Polska nie zgi...
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Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a Central European country, although it is often compared with Eastern Europe. The country borders on the Baltic Sea and Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast...
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Poland
POPULATION 38,634,000ROMAN CATHOLIC 93 percentOTHER CATHOLIC 0.5 percentORTHODOX CHRISTIAN 1.3 percentNONRELIGIOUS 4 percentOTHER 1.2 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
The Republic of ...
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