Welcome to Europe - Poland By Milena Z., Karolina M., Natalia P.,Sandra W., Aleksandra J. class 5a the Mikołaj Kopernik Primary School nr 9 in Dzierżoniów,

Welcome to Europe - Poland

By Milena Z., Karolina M., Natalia P. ,Sandra W., Aleksandra J. class 5a

the Mikołaj Kopernik Primary School nr 9 in Dzierżoniów, Poland

General information • Official name-

Rzeczpospolita Polska. Pepublic of Poland

• Area- 312,685 square km.

• Number of inhabitants- 38,6 milion

• Capital- Warszawa (Warsaw)

• Monetary unit- zloty, devided into 100 groszy

Capital city- Warsaw

• Warsaw (Polish: Warszawa) is located on the Vistula River (the longest river in Poland - about 370 km long).

A panorama of modem Warsaw, taken from Pole Mokotowskie

The sejm building Palace of culture and science

Złote tarasy shopping centre

Mikołaj Kopernik• Nicholas Copernicus- • Mikołaj Kopernik• Born Feb. 19, 1473, Toruń,

Poland.• He was a Polish astronomer

who proposed that the planets have the Sun as the fixed point to which their motions are to be referred; that the Earth is a planet which, besides orbiting the Sun annually, also turns once daily on its own axis; and that very slow, long-term changes in the direction of this axis account for the precession of the equinoxes

John Paul II - Jan Paweł II• Pope John Paul II (Latin:

Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan Paweł II) born Karol Józef Wojtyła]; 18 May 1920 (in Wadowice)– 2 April 2005 (in Vatican) reigned as the 264th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and Sovereign of the State of the Vatican City from 16 October 1978, until his death, almost 27 years later, making his the second-longest pontificate in modern times after Pius IX's 31-year reign. He is the only Polish pope, and was the first non-Italian pope since the Dutch Adrian VI in the 1520s. He is one of only four people to have been named to the Time 100 for both the 20th century and for a year in the 21st.

The Baltic Sea

• The Baltic Sea is located in Northern Europe. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and the Little Belt. The Kattegat continues through the Skagerrak into the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The Baltic Sea is artificially linked to the White Sea by the White Sea Canal and to the North Sea by the Kiel Canal. The Baltic is bordered on its northern edge by the Gulf of Bothnia, on its northeastern edge by the Gulf of Finland, and on its eastern edge by the Gulf of Riga.

The Tatra Mountains

• The Tatra Mountains, Tatras or Tatra (Tatry in both Slovak and Polish), constitute a mountain range which forms a natural border between Slovakia and Poland. They occupy an area of 750km², the major part (600km²) of which lies in Slovakia. Rysy, at 2499m, is the highest Polish peak.

• Morskie Oko Lake - the largest lake in the Polish Tatras

Cracow –Kraków

• Welcome to Krakow, a city wrapped in legend, where time flows differently, and where every moment becomes a moment of history. For centuries Krakow was the capital of Poland, the seat of kings, drawing great scholars and artists from the whole world.

MAZURY LAKES

• Situated in the north - east part of Poland, the Lake District is often called "the land of thousand lakes”

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