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OUR COUNTRY - POLAND
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Quick Facts and Figures

• Official Name Republic of Poland Population
  38,576,000 Capital City Warsaw (1.6 million)
  Latitude/Longitude 52 00'N, 20 00'E
  Languages Polish (official) Official Currency
  Zloty Religions Catholic, others Land Area
  304,460 sq km (117,552 sq miles)

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Country Details

• Poland, a central European country, is situated
  on the southern end of the Baltic Sea. It's an
  ancient land, one with a tragic history of
  military invasions, occupations and the brutal
  experience of warfare. Since the end of World
  War II, and the eventual fall of Communism,
  Poland has moved to a free-market system. It's
  still struggles with a complete economic
  revolution, but the 21st Century has definitely
  arrived

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Landforms

• Fronting the Baltic Sea, a lowland plain blends
  into sandy beaches and dunes. The northern
  regions are somewhat hilly, and flat, fertile
  farmlands dominate the Central Lowlands. Moving
  south, the land rises into hilly uplands that
  front the Sudetic and Carpathian Mountain ranges.
  The tallest peaks are in the Tatra Mountains. The
  highest point is Rysy at 8,187 ft. (2,499m) The
  Oder, Vistula and Warta are the country's major
  rivers. Numerous small lakes dot the far
  northeast.

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Land Divisions

• 16 provinces, including Dolnoslaskie,
  Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Lódzkie, Lubelskie, Lubuskie,
  Malopolskie, Mazowieckie, Opolskie, Podkarpackie,
  Podlaskie, Pomorskie, Slaskie, Swietokrzyskie,
  Warminsko-Mazurskie, Wielkopolskie and
  Zachodniopomorskie

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Our country

• Famous people

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Polish Swimmers

• Male
• Pawel Korzeniowski
• Slawomir Kuczko
• Bartosz Kizierowski
• Lukasz Wójt
• Mateusz Sawrymowicz
• Lukasz Drzewinski
• Przemyslaw Stanczyk

• Female
• Otylia Jedrzejczak
• Katarzyna Baranowska
• Paulina Barzycka
• Joanna Budzis
• Aleksandra Urbanczyk
• Beata Kaminska

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Footballers

• Artur Boruc
• Jacek Bak
• Michal Zewlakow
• Bartosz Bosacki
• Dariusz Dudka
• Radoslaw Sobolewski

• Jacek Krzynówek
• Euzebiusz Smolarek
• Jakub Blaszczykowski
• Maciej Zurawski
• Tomasz Frankowski

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Volleyballers

• Male
• Mariusz Wlazly
• Piotr Gruszka
• Piotr Gacek
• Pawel Zagumny
• Lukasz Kadziewicz
• Sebastian Swiderski
• Michal Winiarski
• Grzegorz Szymanski
• Wojciech Grzyb

• Female
• Malgorzata Glinka
• Dorota Swiniewicz
• Katarzyna Skowronska
• Natalia Bamber
• Agata Mróz
• Milena Rosner
• Izabela Belcik

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Athletes

• Male
• Pawel Czapiewski
• Dariusz Kuc
• Robert Korzeniowski
• Szymon Ziólkowski
• Marcin Urbas
• Mariusz Plawgo
• Pawel Januszewski
• Grzegorz Sposób
• Artur Walerianczyk
• Marcin Marciniszyn

• Female
• Monika Pyrek
• Anna Rogowska
• Anna Jesien
• Kamila Skolimowska
• Lidia Chojecka

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Pope John Paul II

• Poland was plunged into national mourning with
  the news that Pope John Paul II had passed away
  on April 2, 2005. In Kraków the bell of Wawel
  Cathedral was sounded for the first time since
  1979 in memory of his death, and bars and clubs
  across the country immediately closed their
  doors. Tributes from world and religious leaders
  poured in from across the globe and flags up and
  down the country were draped with black ribbons.