![]() ![]() Nearly the entire population is Polish-speaking and the vast majority of those affiliated with any creed are Roman Catholic. In addition to the capital and important ports, the country's major cities include Białystok, Bydgoszcz, Bytom, Częstochowa, Gdańsk, Gliwice, Katowice, Kraków, Łódź, Lublin, Poznań, Radom, Tarnowskie Góry, and Wrocław.Īs a result of World War II, of the 1945 boundary treaty with the USSR, and of the emigration of most of the German-speaking population, the country has considerable ethnic homogeneity. About 40% of Poland's land area is arable (with the best soil in the south), and about 30% is forested. ![]() There are many lakes, especially in the north. The country has three important Baltic ports ( Gdańsk, Gdynia, and Szczecin) and a dense rail network. Poland's main rivers (including the Vistula, the Oder, the Warta, and the Western Bug) are connected to the Baltic Sea and are important traffic lanes. (c.8,200 ft/2,500 m), located in the High Tatra Mts. The country is largely low-lying, except in the south, which includes the Carpathians, the Sudeten Mts., and the Małopolska Hills. It borders on Germany in the west, on the Baltic Sea and the Kaliningrad region of Russia in the north, on Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine in the east, and on the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the south. Polska, officially Republic of Poland, republic (2015 est. ![]()
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