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Interesting and Fun Facts About Poland


Do you love Poland, Polish culture? Do you know about their complicated hardened Slavic language? Do you love the Poles? Poland forward Robert Lewandowski perhaps?

If you know little to nothing about Poland, here's where you'll learn the most extraordinary things about the country. Enjoy the read!

1. Poland has the world's largest castle (by land area) - Malbork Castle - which features among its 16 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
2. Mariusz Pudzianowski (a Pole) holds the record for the most "World's Strongest Man" wins. He won the title in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009.
3. The Polish language is one of the world's most complicated languages. The Polish language is so complicated that even Poles face challenges speaking and writing it with complete accuracy. A word as simple as "Hello" looks so intimidating in Polish: cześć.
4. Poland boasts 17 Nobel Prize winners, four being Nobel Peace Prize winners.
A meeting of two Polish Nobel Prize winners Lech Walesa and Czeslaw Milosz in Gdansk Poland
5. Polish constitution was the first in Europe and the second in the world.
6. Poland is the world's biggest exporter of amber.
7. Central Europe's second oldest university - Jagiellonian University - is found in Poland. The university was founded by King Casemir III the Great in 1364.
8. Poles are behind many revolutionary inventions such as: movie projector/aeroscope, bulletproof vest, walkie-talkie, paraffin lamp, mine detector, bagel, binomial voting, kerosene, Vodka, and Zygalski sheets.
 
9. Poles marry the youngest among all countries in the European Union.
 
A Polish wedding in 1930
10. Poland has a near 100% literacy rate (more than 99%), with at least 90% of Poles having completed secondary school.
Below are some general facts about Poland, including total population, currency, official language, and other interesting and useful facts.
·        Official name: the Republic of Poland (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Polska)
·        Capital and largest city: Warsaw
·        Official language: Polish
·        Demonym: Pole, Polish
·        Official website: Poland.pl
·        Currency: Polish Zloty (PLN)
·        Government: Unitary semi-presidential republic
·        President: Andrzej Duda
·        Prime Minister: Mateusz Morawiecki
·        Total population: 38,433,600 (December 31 estimate)
·        National day: November 11
·        Human Development Index (HDI): 0.865 - very high/33rd highest in the world
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