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| Anthem | "Rota" | ||||
| Capital (and largest city) |
Warsaw | ||||
| Language | Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, German | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism, Atheism, Polish Orthodox Church, Protestantism | ||||
| Ethnic Group | Poles, Byelorussians, Germans, Silesians, Ukrainians, Russians | ||||
| Demonym | Polish | ||||
| Government | Marxist-Leninist single-party state | ||||
| Legislature | National Assembly of Poland | ||||
| Population | 39,126,092 | ||||
| Established | April 18, 1025 | ||||
| Independence | from the German Empire | ||||
| declared | November 11, 1918 | ||||
| Currency | Polish złoty (PLN)
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| Time Zone | Central European Time (UTC+1) | ||||
| summer | Central European Summer Time (UTC+2) | ||||
| Calling Code | +48 | ||||
| Internet TLD | .pl | ||||
| Organizations | European Union | ||||
Poland (Polish: Polska), officially the Polish Democratic Republic (Polish: Polska Rzeczpospolita Demokratyczna), is a country in Central Europe, bordered by East Germany to the west; Czechoslovakia to the south; the Soviet Union to the east; and Rykovgrad German Autonomous Oblast (a Soviet exclave) and Lithuania to the north. The total area of Poland is 388,634 sq km.