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In the 1920s and 1930s, the Polish population increased. According to some sources, in 1938, the Free City's population of 410,000 was 98% German, 1% Polish and 1% other. [11] [35] [36] Other estimates suggest the proportion of Poles in the population of the Free City was around 20% in 1939 [37] or around 25% in 1936. [10]
While the German census placed the number of Polish-speakers and bilinguals below 700,000 people, Polish demographers have estimated that the actual number of Poles in the former German East was between 1.2 [3] and 1.3 million. [5]
2.1 Cities, towns, villages, neighborhoods and regions. 2.2 Natural locations. 3 See also. ... List of German names for places in Poland (in Polish and Esperanto)
The 1950 census (3 December 1950) showed the population rise to 25,008,000, and the 1960 census (6 December 1960) placed the population of Poland at 29,776,000. [57] In 1950, Warsaw was the biggest city of the country, with population of 804,000.
Map of Poland. This is a list of cities and towns in Poland, consisting of four sections: the full list of all 107 cities in Poland by size, followed by a description of the principal metropolitan areas of the country, the table of the most populated cities and towns in Poland, and finally, the full alphabetical list of all 107 Polish cities and 861 towns combined.
Silesia [a] (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.Its area is approximately 40,000 km 2 (15,400 sq mi), and the population is estimated at 8,000,000.
The remaining German minority in Poland (152,897 people were registered in the 2002 census) enjoys minority rights according to Polish minority law. There are German speakers throughout Poland, and most of the Germans live in the Opole Voivodship in Silesia. Bilingual signs are posted in some towns of the region.
591,300 inhabitants. This is the highest population so far recorded for Poznań (it follows the addition of new areas to the city in 1974 and 1987, bringing its total area to 261.3 square kilometres). Later, migration from the city to surrounding areas would cause the population to fall. In the Third Polish Republic. 1990 590,049 inhabitants 1995