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Area
312,696 sq. km.
Population
37,698,294 (June 2023).
Capital
Warsaw, with about 1.8 million inhabitants.
Currency
Zlotys (PLN).
Language
Polish.
Principal imports
Machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods and articles, chemicals and mineral fuels.
Principal exports
Machinery and transport equipment, miscellaneous manufactured articles, food and live animals.
About 12% of the population is engaged in agriculture. The chief crops are: rye, wheat, barley, rapeseed, oats, potatoes, sugar beet, tobacco and flax.
There are important textile, chemical, woodwork and metal industries. Poland also produces automobiles, tractors, heavy machinery, ships and aircrafts.
Poland possesses great mineral wealth, particularly coal, but also iron, lignite, copper, natural gas, lead, sulphur and zinc.
Member of the European Union as of May 1, 2004.