Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Warsaw
- Region
- Europe, Central Europe
- Population
- 36,435,861 (2025)
- Area
- 312,685 km²
- Currency
- Polish złoty (PLN)
- Languages
- Polish
- Calling code
- +48
- Internet domain
- .pl
- ISO codes
- PL, POL, 616
- Time zone
- UTC+1:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ##-### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Poland covers about 312,685 square kilometres. By area it ranks 71st among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Ivory Coast and a little larger than Oman. It shares a land border with 7 neighbours: Belarus, Czechia, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine. Its centre lies at about 52° north, 20° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 36.4 million people live in Poland (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 44th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.44 percent of the world's people. On average there are 117 people to each square kilometre. About 60 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 78 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Polish. A person from Poland is called Polish.
Money and economy
The currency is the Polish złoty (code PLN, symbol zł). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 1.04 trillion (2025), which is about US$ 28,420 for each person (2025).
Time
Poland uses one time zone, UTC+1:00 (Europe/Warsaw). Clocks are moved for daylight saving time in part of the year.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Warsaw | 1,702,139 |
| Kraków | 816,614 |
| Wrocław | 672,545 |
| Łódź | 639,890 |
| Poznań | 536,151 |
| Gdańsk | 487,371 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Central Europe
Austria, Hungary, Slovenia. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.