POLAND COUNTRY PRESENTATION

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POLAND COUNTRY PRESENTATION
Fact Pack
Spring 2007
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POLAND IS A COUNTRY WITH ALMOST 40 MILLION
INHABITANTS 62 of which live in towns
Area 312 683 km2 Official
language Polish Population 38.1
million Capital Warsaw Form of
government Republic Exchange rate PLN 1 SEK
2.37 Industries Metal, machinery, food,
automotive, Business Process
Offshoring Unemployment 14.9 BNP and
BNP/capita SEK 2 490 billion SEK 65
354/capita Other important cities Lodz, Krakow,
Wroclaw, Poznan and Gdansk
March 1,2007
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GOOD MACRO ECONOMIC SITUATION- stable GDP-growth
and low inflation
Source Central Statistical Office GUS, Economist
Intelligence Unit, Eurostat
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FAMOUS POLES
Maria Sklodowska-Curie (1867 1934)
Physicist and chemist, discovered polonium and
radium, twice awarded the Nobel Prize
Mikolaj Kopernik (1473 1543)
Astronomer, the first to develop a heliocentric
theory of the Solar System
Fryderyk Chopin (1810 1849) Pianist and
composer
Pope John Paul II (1920 2005)
Lech Walesa (born 1943)
Solidarity trade union leader, Nobel
Peace Prize winner
Robert Korzeniowski (born 1968)
Olympic and world walking champion