{"id":682,"date":"2014-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serwer1986237.home.pl\/_test\/loco-estate\/knowledge\/30-interesting-facts-about-poland\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T16:57:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T14:57:59","slug":"30-interesting-facts-about-poland","status":"publish","type":"knowledge","link":"https:\/\/locoestate.tinssen.com\/en\/knowledge\/30-interesting-facts-about-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"30 interesting facts about Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"
Moving to a foreign country is one of the biggest life decisions you can ever make. Therefore, before you decide to move, it is useful to learn a little bit more about chosen country. We helped you already with understanding some Polish phrases and now – based on video made by Beran Gurler – we want to show you 30 interesting facts about Poland.<\/div>\n

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1)<\/strong> The name of our country – “Poland” – originates from the name of the tribe “Polanie” which means “people living in open fields”.
\n2)<\/strong> Poland has been invaded or has fought for freedom in insurrections 43 times from 1600 to 1945.
\n3)<\/strong> Poland adopted the first constitution of its type in Europe and – what is very interesting – the second ever in the world after that of the United States.
\n4)<\/strong> Polish has the second largest number of speakers among the Slavic languages after Russian.
\n5)<\/strong> Famous musical composer Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin was Pole and he was born in Zelazowa Wola – a village, which is located about 60 kilometers from Warsaw.
\n6)<\/strong> Poland’s first documented ruler was Mieszko I in the 10th century.
\n7)<\/strong> Born in Poland – precisely: in Warsaw – Marie Curie was the first and only Nobel laureate in two different sciences.
\n8)<\/strong> Polish born astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was the first person to propose that the earth was not the center of the universe.
\n9)<\/strong> Poland boasts the most winners of the “World’s Strongest Man” title – for example Mariusz Pudzianowski.
\n10)<\/strong> Poland is known for its large diversity of ethnic including Ukrainians, Belarussians, Slovaks, Lithuanians and Germans.
\n11)<\/strong> Poland is the 9th largest country in Europe with the population of more than 38 000 000 people.
\n12)<\/strong> Amongst all the members of the European Union, Polish people are getting married as the youngest.
\n13)<\/strong> According to a 2007 UNICEF report on child well-being in rich countries, Poland is the second best of the OECD countries.
\n14)<\/strong> The same reports also finds that Poland has the lowest percentage of overweight young people (only 7.1%).
\n15)<\/strong> Polish people have the largest households in the European Union.
\n16)<\/strong> The six biggest cities in Poland are Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Wroclaw, Poznan and Gdansk.
\n17)<\/strong> Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004.
\n18)<\/strong> Poland was a communist country from 1945 to 1989.
\n19)<\/strong> The White Eagle (Polish: Orze\u0142 Bia\u0142y) is the national symbol of Poland – white eagle with a golden beak and talons, and wearing a golden crown, in a red shield.
\n20)<\/strong> Poland has seven neighbours: Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Russia.
\n21)<\/strong> Poland’s capitals have been Gniezno, Poznan, Krakow and finally – Warsaw.
\n22)<\/strong> Geographically, Poland is not in the Eastern Europe. It is in the very center of Europe.
\n23)<\/strong> Poland is one of the few countries in the world, where courteous hand-kissing is still a common practice.
\n24)<\/strong> One third of Poland is covered with forests, 50% of the land is dedicated to farming, there are a total of 9300 lakes and 23 National Parks (e.g. Kampinos National Park near Warsaw).
\n25)<\/strong> The unit of currency in Poland is the Zloty (PLN). It means “gold” in Polish.
\n26)<\/strong> Despite the vast destruction the country experienced in World War II, Poland managed to preserve much of its cultural wealth.
\n27)<\/strong> Poland is currently one of the fastest growing within the EU.
\n28)<\/strong> According to a Credit Suisse report, Poles are the second wealthiest (after Czechs) of the Central European peoples.
\n29)<\/strong> According to UNICEF 2007 report, Poland remains one of the most peaceful countries in the world.
\n30)<\/strong> One of the best universities in Poland is the University of Warsaw, established in 1816.<\/p>\n

These couple of facts should help you with learning about Poland and its history, and also find out some trivia about this beautiful country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[195],"tags":[12],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locoestate.tinssen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge\/682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locoestate.tinssen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locoestate.tinssen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledge"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locoestate.tinssen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locoestate.tinssen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locoestate.tinssen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locoestate.tinssen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}