THE REPUBLIC OF POLANDRZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA

THE FLAG AND THE EMBLEM

BASIC INFORMATION:

• The capital (and the largest city) is Warsaw• The total area of Poland is 312,679 km2

• Poland has a population of over 38.5 million people

• Poland is a member of the European Union, the NATO, the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and many others.

• CRACOW

GDANSK

WARSAW

The capital of Poland.

POLAND'S MASURIAN LAKE DISTRICT

THE TATRA MOUNTAINS

SOPOT AND THE BALTIC SEA

• Nicolaus Copernicus - an astronomer and the first person to formulate the heliocentric model, with the Sun in the center of the universe.

FAMOUS PEOPLE:

•Marie Skłodowska-Curie – a French-Polish physicist and chemist, famous for her pioneering research into radioactivity. She discovered two elements, polonium and radium. She received two Nobel Prizes: in Physics and in Chemistry.

• Frédéric Chopin – a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered to be one of the greatest masters of Romantic music.

• John Paul II - was the Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the second-longest serving Pope in history and the first non-Italian since 1523.

• Jan Matejko - was a Polish painter known for paintings of notable national, historical events, both political and military.