1. POLSKA
POLAND

2. Basic Info
312 697 km2
770 km of the coastline
38 mln inhabitants
123 inhabitants/km2
The highest peak: Rysy (2499,1 m)
Temperatures:
(-40) -6 to 30 °C (+42)
Forestation: 30%

3. Capital
Warszawa
Wisła (Vistula – 1047 km)

4. More Info
President:
Prime Minister:
Religion:
Currency:
Bronisław Komorowski
Donald Tusk
Catholicism
Złoty Polski

5. Polish National Anthem:
Mazurek Dąbrowskiego
The song of the Polish legions
in Italy, by Józef Wibicki (1797)
Poland has not yet parished,
As long as we remain.
What the foe by force has seized,
Sword in hand we’ll regain.
Symbols

6. Anthem

7. Baltic Sea
Sandy beaches Amber

8. Mazury – the land of 3000 lakes
The second highest density of lakes in the world.

9. Góry Świętokrzyskie
(Holy Cross Mountains)
Łysica
612 m
Sudety
(Sudets)
Karkonosze
Śnieżka
1602 m
Karpaty
(Carpathian)
Tatry
(Tatra)
Rysy
2499 m
Bieszczady
Tarnica
1346 m
Polish mountain ranges

10. Góry Świętokrzyskie

11. Karkonosze
Śnieżka Szklarska Poręba

12. Tatry
Rysy Morskie Oko

13. Bieszczady
The view from Tarnica Tarnica

14. Podlasie
The European Stork Village, Pentowo

15. Puszcza Białowieska
(Białowieża Forest)

16. Where I live...

17. Euro 2012 in Poznań

18. 550 Volunteers

19. Football (Piłka nożna)
Zbigniew Boniek & Michel Platini Jerzy Dudek (Dudi Dance)

20. More stars of Polish football…
Robert Lewandowski
Artur Boruc
Kuba Błaszczykowski
Mirosław Klose

21. World Championship 2012

22. Nobel Prizes
Maria Skłodowska – Curie (rad & polon)
Lech Wałęsa (peaceful fight freedom)
Henryk Sienkiewicz („Quo Vadis”), Władysław Reymont
(„Chłopi”)
Czesław Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska (for resurecting poetry
in the age of mass culture)

23. Fryderyk Chopin
1810 – 1849
Born in Żelazowa Wola
He wrote 200 compositions,
the first at the age of 6
(Polonaise)
„Revolutionary Etude” – the
reflection of despair after the
failure of November Uprising in
Poland (1830)
His body is buried in France,
but the heart was returned to
Poland.

24. Mikołaj Kopernik

25. Karol Wojtyła

26. Polish cuisine
Bigos, barszcz czerwony, smalec…

27. Pierogi, kotlet schabowy, oscypki.

28. Polish (język polski)
Spoken by up to 48 mln people around the world
the 2nd spoken language in Ireland
32 letters:
Aa, Ąą, Bb, Cc, Ćć, Dd, Ee, Ęę, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Łł, Mm, Nn, Ńń,
Oo, Óó, Pp, Rr, Ss, Śś, Tt, Uu, Ww, Yy, Zz, Źź, Żż
'Two or three in one’:
cz, sz, ci, si, dz, dż (=drz), dź, dzi, zi, ni, ch (=h), rz (=ż), ó (=u)
W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie, a
Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie.
Language

29. What does it mean?
straight
an hour
tomorrow
November
July
a blueberry
a looser
a person
You smoke
prosto
godzina
jutro
listopad
lipiec
jagoda
frajer
osoba
kurzysz