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Border crossing in Białowieża Forest in 2008. Borders of Poland, with the Polish-Belarusian border marked in orange Belarusian Border Guards patrolling the border fence. The Belarusian–Polish border is the state border between the Republic of Poland (EU member) and the Republic of Belarus (Union State).
While the actual border line remained unchanged following the fall of the Soviet Union, the breakdown of the Soviet Union into a number of post-Soviet states transformed the Poland-Soviet Union border into a Poland-Russia, Poland–Lithuania, Poland-Belarus and Poland-Ukraine border. The Poland–Russia borders were confirmed in a Polish ...
Poland's old and new borders, 1945 (Kresy in gray) Borders of Poland with length (NB: The illustrated Polish coastline is 770 km, while the borders at sea is 440 km combined). Neuwarper See (Jezioro Nowowarpieńskie), a lake divided by a border between Poland and Germany. The Borders of Poland are 3,511 km (2,182 mi) [1] or 3,582 km (2,226 mi ...
Grodno Region, also known as Grodno Oblast [b] or Hrodna Voblasts, [c] is a region of Belarus. Its administrative centre and its namesake, Grodno, is the largest city in the whole region. As of 2024, it has a population of 992,556. [3] Located in western Belarus, it lies on the Neman River.
Belarus, [b] officially the Republic of Belarus, [c] is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest.
Both Russia and the European Union countries also saw great interest in civilian uses of the gap. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Russia attempted to negotiate an extraterritorial corridor to connect its exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast with Grodno in Belarus. Poland, Lithuania and the EU did not consent.
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. Today, these territories are part of sovereign Belarus, Ukraine, and ...
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.