Poland

Facts

What the numbers say about Poland

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 54.2× the size of Poland.
• Poland ranks 38th of 237 by population but only 70th of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
• At 120 people per km², Poland is the 55th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 52°N is drawn about 2.7× too large in area, so Poland looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Poland's main territory stretches about 645 km north to south and 687 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 313,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 313,000 km², to within 2%.

How Poland measures up

Poland holds 1.4% of the land area and 5.0% of the people of the 50 countries listed for Europe. In Eastern Europe it is the 3rd largest of 10.

Where Poland sits

• Poland's centre lies at 52.1°N, 19.4°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 5,790 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 49°N to 55°N, about 650 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Poland had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Poland would have 392.6 million people. It has 37.6 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Poland would have 1.2 million people. It has 37.6 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 22.7 million.

Compare Poland

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