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KEY FACTS
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Area: 120,728 sq. miles
Language: Polish
Capital City: Warsaw (1,700,000 people)
Area: 312,685 sqkm / 120,727 sqm (9th in Europe)
Currency: Zloty (PLN)
Dollar Exchange Rate
Planning to adopt the Euro in 2012
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Poland is bordered by Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, the Baltic Sea and Kalingrad. As of May 2004, Poland has become a full member of the European Union. |
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Unemployment Rate: 12.8% GDP Per Capita: $16,500 Internet Country Code: .pl Ethnicity: 99.3% of the population are native Poles.
The remaining percentage is made up of mostly Germans, Belarusians and Ukrainians. Religion: 97% of the population is Roman Catholic. As such, Poland remains one of the most religious countries in Europe.
Poland is the largest country among the new EU members. Located at heart of Europe, it is also the place where the fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe began; solidarity and roundtable discussions made the fall of the Berlin Wall and Velvet Revolution possible. Now the country has a stable democracy, a growing market economy, and is NATO member and strategic partner of the US government. May 2004 marked the most recent turning point in polish democracy when the country became member of the European Union.
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