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Poland is a member of the European Union, NATO, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Poland currently has a population of over 38 million people, [3] which makes it the 34th most populous country in the world [18] and one of the most populous members of the European Union.
As a result of the Potsdam Agreement to which Poland's government-in-exile was not invited, Poland lost 179,000 square kilometres (69,000 square miles) (45%) of prewar territories in the east, including over 12 million citizens of whom 4.3 million were Polish-speakers.
Treaty of Versailles (Articles 87–93) and Little Treaty ratify Poland as a sovereign state internationally August 16: First Silesian Uprising begins; Silesian Uprisings continue until 1921 August 22: Sejny Uprising after imperial Germany turned over administration to Lithuanian delegates 1920 February 10: Poland's Wedding to the Sea in Puck ...
Poland, [d] officially the Republic of Poland, [e] is a country in Central Europe.It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia [f] to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west.
Spisz (Polish: Spisz), only partially in modern Poland, remainder in Slovakia, including the largest city Poprad. Formerly at various times either entirely or partially part of Poland. Cherven Cities (Polish: Grody Czerwieńskie), over half of the territory is in Poland, remainder in Ukraine. Largest city: Rzeszów.
Poland's geopolitical location on the Northern European Lowlands became especially important in a period when its expansionist neighbors, the Kingdom of Prussia and Imperial Russia, involved themselves intensely in European rivalries and alliances as modern nation-states took form over the entire continent.
The Borders of Poland are 3,511 km (2,182 mi) [1] or 3,582 km (2,226 mi) long. [2] The neighboring countries are Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and Lithuania and the Russian province of Kaliningrad Oblast to the northeast.
By the First Partition in 1772, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth lost about 211 000 km 2 (30% of its territory, amounting at that time to about 733 000 km 2), [25] with a population of over four to five million people (about a third of its population of 14 million before the partitions).