<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/049b3484-5a47-42fc-9ee5-5378f90b2d13/79804B8E-3D2B-4996-99E7-8A60CDD0E11E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poland&oldid=322509565" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poland&oldid=322509565" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poland&oldid=322509565"><H1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading">Poland</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poland&oldid=322509565"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/A7DF3978-A9D5-471E-A3EA-3F75F9FBBEBB" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poland&oldid=322509565"><P><B>Poland</B> <SPAN class="IPA nounderlines"><A title="en-us-Poland.ogg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media:En-us-Poland.ogg"><IMG height="11" width="11" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png" alt="en-us-Poland.ogg" /></A> <A title="En-us-Poland.ogg" class="internal" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/En-us-Poland.ogg"><SPAN class="IPA" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ˈpoʊlənd/</SPAN></A> <SMALL class="metadata">(<A title="Wikipedia:Media help" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_help">help</A>·<A title="File:En-us-Poland.ogg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:En-us-Poland.ogg">info</A>)</SMALL></SPAN> (<A title="Polish language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_language">Polish</A>: <SPAN lang="pl" xml:lang="pl"><I>Polska</I></SPAN>), officially the <B>Republic of Poland</B> (<I><A title="Rzeczpospolita" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rzeczpospolita">Rzeczpospolita</A> Polska</I>), is a country in <A title="Central Europe" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe">Central Europe</A> <SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><A href="#cite_note-4"><SPAN>[</SPAN>5<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP><SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"><A href="#cite_note-5"><SPAN>[</SPAN>6<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP> bordered by <A title="Germany" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany">Germany</A> to the west; the <A title="Czech Republic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic">Czech Republic</A> and <A title="Slovakia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia">Slovakia</A> to the south; <A title="Ukraine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine">Ukraine</A>, <A title="Belarus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus">Belarus</A> and <A title="Lithuania" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania">Lithuania</A> to the east; and the <A title="Baltic Sea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea">Baltic Sea</A> and <A title="Kaliningrad Oblast" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_Oblast">Kaliningrad Oblast</A>, a Russian <A title="Enclave and exclave" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclave_and_exclave">exclave</A>, to the north. The total <A title="Area of Poland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_of_Poland">area of Poland</A> is 312,679 square kilometres (120,726 sq mi),<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-CSO_2008_1-2"><A href="#cite_note-CSO_2008-1"><SPAN>[</SPAN>2<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP> making it the <A title="List of countries and outlying territories by total area" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_outlying_territories_by_total_area">69th largest country</A> in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. Poland has a population of over 38 million people,<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-CSO_2008_1-3"><A href="#cite_note-CSO_2008-1"><SPAN>[</SPAN>2<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP> which makes it the <A title="List of countries by population" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population">34th most populous country</A> in the world<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-6"><A href="#cite_note-6"><SPAN>[</SPAN>7<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP> and one of the most populous <A title="Member State of the European Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_State_of_the_European_Union">members of the EU</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/79804B8E-3D2B-4996-99E7-8A60CDD0E11E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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