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Discover Fun Facts about Poland!

Get to know Poland, the land of interesting facts and rich culture. From famous composers to unique traditions, explore the beauty of this fascinating country.

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Discover Fun Facts about Poland!

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  1. HELLO! We arefrom Poland 

  2. Basic information • Capital: Warsaw • Surface: 322 576 km2 (68th intheworld) • Population: 38 186 000 (34th; 96,7% Poles) • Political system: parlimentarydemocracy • Neighbors: German, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Russia • Mainreligion: romanCatholicism, 89% Poles • Member of: EU (since 2004), NATO, WTO, OECD, UN and other

  3. We want to show yousomeintresting and funnyfactsaboutour country

  4. Thename „Poland” originatesfromthetribe „Polanie” whichmeans „peoplelivinginopenfields”

  5. Polishalphabetconsists of 32 letters (English of 26)

  6. Polishconstitution was first in Europe and secondintheworld

  7. Polishastronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was the first person to proposethattheEarth was not the center of theUniverse

  8. Polishastronomer, Jan Heweliusz publishedtheearliestexactmaps of theMoon He inventedperiskop

  9. Fryderyk Chopin was o Polishcomposer • Chopin's works have been recorded by all the great pianists of the recording era.

  10. Windshieldwiperswereinvented by Józef Hofmann

  11. Poland boats 17 Nobel prizewinners.

  12. Maria Skłodowska-Curie is one of the Nobel laureates • Sheinvented and

  13. Nearly 35% of the 60 millionPoles live abroad

  14. When foreign moviesaredubbed for Polish TV, one manreadsallthe parts, eventhose of women and children. ViewersheartheoriginalEnglishsoundtrackfaintlyinthebackground.

  15. Watching Home Aloneis a Christmastradition

  16. Poland isworld’sbiggestamberexporter

  17. Max Factor was founded by Pole Maksymilian Faktorowicz

  18. The 1st floorisregarded as floor „0”, so youpress „1” whenyou want to go to the 2nd floorintheelevator

  19. TypicalPolishconversation: • What’supp? • Betterdon’task/ As always/ Itcould be better

  20. We are proud of Robert Lewandowski

  21. Although our language is rich in epithets, in some situations we aren’t generous

  22. We havegood monitoring

  23. We know a lot aboutfashion and trends

  24. We eat pizza with ketchup

  25. We arealsoproud of San Escobar

  26. More about San Escobar • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Escobar • https://www.facebook.com/sanescobarcountry/

  27. But seriously…PolandisbeatifulSee for yourself • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekz6i58kVpI

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