The following numbers characterize the area of
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
* Area of Polish territory - (
land area
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,
internal waters
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area and
territorial sea
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area)
* Administrative area of Poland - . This is calculated according to the official definition of the coastline. Some of Polish
administrative unit
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s include area of internal waters (8
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
s in
voivodeship zachodniopomorskie, 2 communes in
Pomerania Voivodeship and 3 communes in
Warmia-Mazuria Voivodeship). In Poland, there are of internal waters, but only of it are included in administrative units according to the coast line definition. That is why the administrative area of Poland isn't the same as the area of Poland. By common convention is called the (total) area of Poland in encyclopedias and other sources.
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Encyklopedia PWN (in Polish)
* Area of Poland (land area of Poland) - . Land area includes land waters (lake
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s, river
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s, canal
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s) and this figure is normally used when comparing the area of Poland with the area of other countries.
See also
*Administrative division of Poland
The administrative division of Poland since 1999 has been based on three levels of subdivision. The territory of Poland is divided into ''voivodeships'' (provinces); these are further divided into ''powiats'' (counties or districts), and these i ...
*Geography of Poland
Poland ( pl, Polska) is a country that extends across the North European Plain from the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south to the sandy beaches of the Baltic Sea in the north. Poland is the fifth-most populous country of the Europe ...
*Territorial changes of Poland
Poland is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. The total ...
References
Geography of Poland
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