Finally, just to mention something about the country; Poland is a country located in Central Europe. It has 16 administrative subdivisions, covering an area of 312,696 square kilometres (120,733 sq mi), and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With a population of approximately 38.5 million people, Poland is the sixth most populous member state of the European Union. Poland share border with the Baltic Sea, Lithuania, and Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast to the north, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. Poland is also one of the oldest country in the world with a history of human activity on its soil spans almost 500,000 years.
Warsaw international airport!
The establishment of the first Polish state can be traced to AD 966, when Mieszko I (ruler of the realm coextensive with the territory of present-day Poland) converted to Christianity. However, the Kingdom of Poland was established in 1025, and in 1569 it cemented its longstanding political association with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by signing the Union of Lublin, which led the formation of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and adopted Europe's first written national constitution, the Constitution of 3 May 1791. Poland regained its independence in 1918 from the Union of Lublin with the Treaty of Versailles. After a series of territorial conflicts, the new multi-ethnic Poland restored its position as a key player in European politics. In September 1939, World War II started with the invasion of Poland by Germany, followed by the Soviet Union invading Poland in accordance with the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Around six million Polish citizens, including 90% of the country's Jews, perished in the war. In 1947, the Polish People's Republic was established as a satellite state under Soviet influence. In the aftermath of the Revolutions of 1989, most notably through the emergence of the Solidarity movement, Poland reestablished itself as a presidential democratic republic, which what they have today.
Although it got its name, Poland, due to the dominance of the Western Polans in the region, the country is more diverse since the Iron age. Poland's economy is considered to be one of the more resilient of the post-Communist countries and is one of the fastest growing within the EU, with the largest Stock Exchange in the East-Central European zone and the sixth largest economy by GDP (PPP) in the European Union. Since the fall of the communist government, Poland has pursued a policy of liberalizing the economy; a transition from a centrally planned to a primarily market-based economy. The country's most successful exports include machinery, furniture, food products, clothing, shoes and cosmetics. I'm very surprised with the variety of products that country manuifactured/produced. Just to mention some of the products and goods manufactured in Poland: electronics, buses and trams (Solaris, Solbus), helicopters and planes (PZL Świdnik, PZL Mielec), trains (Pesa SA, Newag), ships (Gdańsk Shipyard, Szczecin Shipyard, Gdynia Polish Navy Shipyard), military equipment (FB "Łucznik" Radom, Bumar-Łabędy SA), medicines (Polpharma, Polfa), food (Tymbark, Hortex, E. Wedel), clothes (LLP), glass, pottery (Bolesławiec), chemical products and others. Poland is also one of the world's biggest producers of copper, silver and coal, as well as potatoes, rye, rapeseed, cabbage, apples, strawberries and ribes.
Poland has very high standards of living, life quality, safety, education, and economic freedom; also the state provides free university education, social security, and a universal health care system. Politically, Poland is one of strategic state, and is a full member state of the European Union, the Schengen Area, the United Nations, NATO, the OECD, the Three Seas Initiative, the Visegrád Group, and guested at the G20.
Anyway, my trip to Poland was very successful. I'm now heading back to home. I'm at Paris international airport.
Paris international airport!
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