Basic facts

POLAND

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: Polish

CURRENCY: złoty, PLN

LOCATION: Central Europe. Poland borders: Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Russia. Its northern border runs along the Baltic Sea coast.

CAPITAL: Warszawa (Warsaw)

MAJOR CITIES: Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk, Szczecin, Bydgoszcz, Lublin, Katowice, Białystok

POPULATION: 38 milion

TIME ZONE: Poland belongs to the Central Europe time zone (GMT +1 hour/UTC + 1 hour); between the last Sunday of March and the last Sunday of October it switches to daylight saving time (DST). 

CALLING CODE: +48

KRAKOW
  • Student city - with 21 higher educational institutions 
  • Second largest city in Poland, almost 1 million inhabitants, including about 200 thousand students
  • Affordable to live in 
  • Numerous cultural and student annually events 
  • Cultural capital of Poland with more than 30 museums
  • UNESCO World Heritage sites
  • Delicious traditional food