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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]
3. Transfer of German Population Most of the ethnic German population fled during the war. Many of them were sent to forced labour. [41] [circular reference]. In 1950 only about 40,000 of the pre-war ethnic German group remained in Poland in 1950, most of whom emigrated later in the 1950s. [42] Others were also expelled [43] [circular reference ...
Below are links to subpages listing German language names of towns and villages in different regions of Poland. Due to the country's history, many of those names have been in actual use locally, and are thus not exonyms.
about 12,000 inhabitants (continuing decline in population due to wars, floods and plague) 1732 4,000 inhabitants (according to notes of town scribe Jan Rzepecki ) 1733 6,000 inhabitants Under Prussian rule. 1794 12,538 inhabitants (census data); the population at this time was about 20% Jewish and 10% German 1796 16,124 inhabitants (census data)
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]
After the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop pact in 1939 between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Germany invaded Western Poland. Two weeks later, the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland. As a result, Poland was divided between the Germans and the Soviets (see Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union).
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.
Poland's population has been growing quickly after World War II, during which the country lost millions of citizens.Population passed 38 million in the late 1980s and has since then stagnated within the 38.0-38.6 million range until the 2020s where the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the baby boom generation starting to die out and a baby boost started to overlap.