Poland
Poland is located in Central Europe, over Baltic sea. Geographic coordinates are: 50o00'N, 20o00'E.
Total area: 312,685 km2.
land: 304,465 km2.
water: 8,220 km2.
Poland is 63'rd biggest country in the world, and 9'th biggest in Europe.
Borders lenght: 3582 km
sea border: 528 km,
with Russian Federation: 210km,
with Latwia Republic: 103 km,
with Belarus Republic: 416 km,
with Ukraine Republic: 529 km,
with Slovakia Republic: 539 km,
with Czech Republic: 790 km,
with Germany: 467 km.
Warsaw is capital of Poland (494 km2) - 1.618.500 citizens
Language - Polish
Currency -1 zloty(PLN) = 100 groszy
Total population of Poland: 38.654.000 (26'th world wide, and 8'th in Europe)
Rate of accompancy - 124 per square kilometer.
Average lifespan : man - 68.8, woman - 77.5.
Ethnical minorities: Poles - 98.7%, Ukrainians - 0.6%, others - 0.7%.
Religion: Roman Catholics - 95%, Orthodox Church - 1.5%, Evangelics - 1%.
Government in Poland
Poland is a Republic with two upper houses of Parlament (Seym, Senate), called in National Elections for four years tenure. Seym's posted in general election, equal, direct, proportionally in secret voting.
Senate's posted in general election, direct in secret voting.
Seym count's 460 deputys
Senate count's 100 senators
Seym and Senate deliberate together under supervision of President of Polish Seym. It's also called National Assembly (Zgromadzenie Narodowe)
Any internal/external politics are run by government, also called Cabynet.
Head of the Cabynet is Prime Minister.
Prime Minister and his ministers are nominated by President of Poland.
Cabynet is obliged to postpone program within fourteen days, and recive
vote of confidence.
If vote of confidence is not granted, Seym elects new Prime Minister and his
Cabynet, that got to be approved by President of Poland.
Government administrational organ, and government's representative in
local area is called voivode.
| No. | 16 provinces Poland's | square kilometres | population (x1000) |
|---|
1. | dolnośląskie (Wrocław) | 19 946 | 2 987 |
| 2. | kujawsko-pomorskie (Bydgoszcz) | 17 970 | 2 098 |
| 3. | lubelskie (Lublin) | 25 115 | 2 244 |
| 4. | lubuskie (Zielona Góra) | 13 985 | 1 019 |
| 5. | łódzkie (Łódź) | 18 223 | 2 676 |
| 6. | małopolskie (Kraków) | 15 141 | 3 204 |
| 7. | mazowieckie (Warszawa) | 35 715 | 5 068 |
| 8. | opolskie (Opole) | 9 412 | 1 092 |
| 9. | podkarpackie (Rzeszów) | 17 890 | 2 117 |
| 10. | podlaskie (Białystok) | 20 180 | 1 224 |
| 11. | pomorskie (Gdańsk) | 18 293 | 2 179 |
| 12. | śląskie (Katowice) | 12 309 | 4 899 |
| 13. | świętokrzyskie (Kielce) | 11 672 | 1 329 |
| 14. | warmińsko-mazurskie (Olsztyn) | 24 202 | 1 460 |
| 15. | wielkopolskie (Poznań) | 29 942 | 3 345 |
| 16. | zachodniopomorskie (Szczecin) | 23 032 | 1 729 |
| Total: | 312 685 | 38 670 |
Membership in:
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