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Road Traffic:right side
Electricity:
Voltage:230V
Frequency:50 Hz
Plug types:C, E,
TV Systems:
System:PAL D / PAL K
DVD-Region: 2
Geography
Bordering countries:
Location:
Central Europe, east of Germany
Area:
total: 312,685 sq km
land: 304,465 sq km
water: 8,220 sq km
Climate:
temperate with cold, cloudy, moderately severe winters with frequent precipitation; mild summers with frequent showers and thundershowers
Terrain:
mostly flat plain; mountains along southern border
Economy
GDP: $514 billion (2005 est.)
GDP growth rate: 3.2% (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $13,300 (2005 est.)
Inflation rate: 2.2% (2005 est.)
Currency: zloty (PLN)
Exchange rates:
note: zlotych is the plural form of zloty
People
Population: 38,536,869 (July 2006 est.)
Growth rate: -0.05% (2006 est.)
Religions:
Roman Catholic 89.8% (about 75% practicing), Eastern Orthodox 1.3%, Protestant 0.3%, other 0.3%, unspecified 8.3% (2002)
Languages:
Polish 97.8%, other and unspecified 2.2% (2002 census)
Government
Capital:
name: Warsaw
time difference: UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
Independence:
11 November 1918 (independent republic proclaimed)
Note: Information on Poland was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Poland, please visit one of the links below.
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