Poland Tourist Information

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland is a central European country. The country shares borders with Germany to the west, the Czech and Slovak Republics to the south and Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Russia to the east. It's natural border to the north is the Baltic Sea.

Poland covers an area of 312,700 square kilometres and has 38 million inhabitants. 1,650,000 live in Warsaw and other major cities (Cracow, Gdansk, Poznan, Lodz, Szczecin, Wroclaw).

On 1 May 2004 Poland joined the European Union.