Poland

1. Julia Górska 1M

2. Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula
River, in east-central Poland, roughly 260 kilometres (160 mi) from the Baltic
Sea and 300 kilometres (190 mi) from the Carpathian Mountains. Its
population is estimated at 1.711 million residents within a greater metropolitan
area of 2.666 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 9th most populous
capital city in the European Union. The area of the city covers 516.9 square
kilometres (199.6 sq mi), while the city's agglomeration covers 6,100.43
square kilometres

3. Kraków also Cracow, or Krakow is the second largest and one of the oldest
cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River (Polish: Wisła) in the Lesser
Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally
been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life and
is one of Poland's most important economic hubs. It was the capital of Poland
from 1038 to 1569; the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569 to 1596
Free City of Kraków from 1815 to 1846; the Grand Duchy of Cracow from 1846
to 1918; and Kraków Voivodeship from the 14th century to 1999. It is now the
capital of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.

4. Gdańsk, is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, the capital of the
Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland's principal seaport and the
centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area. The city
lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay (of the Baltic Sea), in a
conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and
suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area
called the Tricity.

5. Wrocław is the largest city in western Poland. It is situated
on the River Oder (Odra) in the Silesian Lowlands of Central
Europe, roughly 350 kilometres (220 mi) from the Baltic Sea to
the south and 40 kilometres (25 mi) from the Sudety
Mountains to the south. Wrocław is the historical capital of
Silesia and Lower Silesia. Today, it is the capital of the Lower
Silesian Voivodeship.

6. Zakopane is a town in the extreme south of Poland. It lies in the southern part of
the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. From 1975 to 1998 it was in
Nowy Sącz Province, but since 1999 it has been in Lesser Poland Province.
Zakopane is a center of Góral culture and is known informally as "the winter
capital of Poland". It is a popular destination for mountaineering, skiing, and
tourism.

7. Bydgoszcz is a city located in northern Poland, on the Brda and Vistula
rivers. With a city population of 363,926 (March 2011), and an urban
agglomeration with more than 470,000 inhabitants, Bydgoszcz is the 8th-
largest city in Poland. It has been the seat of Bydgoszcz County and the co-
capital, with Toruń, of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999.
Prior to this, between 1947 and 1998, it was the capital of the Bydgoszcz
Voivodeship, and before that, of the Pomeranian Voivodeship between 1945
and 1947.

8. Łódź is the third-largest city in Poland. Located in the central part of
the country. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is
approximately 135 kilometres (84 mi) south-west of Warsaw. The
city's coat of arms is an example of canting: depicting a boat, it
alludes to the city's name which translates literally as "boat."

9. Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, the region called
Wielkopolska (Greater Poland). The city population is about 550,000, while the
continuous conurbation with Poznan Country and several other communities
(Oborniki, Skoki, Szamotuły and Śrem) is inhabited by almost 1.1 million people.
The Larger Poznań Metropolitan Area (PMA) is inhabited by 1.3-1.4 million people
and extends to such satellite towns as Nowy Tomyśl, Gniezno and Wrzesnia,making
it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Poland.