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| | Poland |
 | | The Republic of Poland, a country in Central Europe, lies between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and Russia (in the form of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave) to the north. |
 | | Poland used to be a single-party state and a satellite state of the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1989. |
 | | The names of the country, Polska, and of the nationality, the Poles, are of Slavic origin. |
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