Did you know?
- 🦓Home to Europe's heaviest land animal — the European bison, brought back from extinction in the wild.
- ✨Wieliczka Salt Mine has underground chapels, chandeliers and statues — all carved from rock salt.
- 🥇Marie Curie, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes (and the only one in two sciences), was Polish.
- 🥇Has one of Europe's last primeval forests — Białowieża — where you can still find original lowland woodland.
- 🥇Krakow's old town is so well preserved it was on the first ever UNESCO World Heritage list in 1978.
Location
52.00°, 20.00°
Actual size
Compared to Australia.
Australia · 7,692,024 km²
Poland
312,679 km²
% of Australia
4.06%
