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Poland Research Paper

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Poland is located in Central/Eastern Europe. It’s locational and geographical properties have been in a constant changing state. It covers 120,700 square miles. On the north Poland is bordered by the Baltic Sea, Russia, and Lithuania; on the east by Belarus and Ukraine; on the south by Slovakia and the Czech Republic; and on the west by Germany. Originally, the capital was Cracow, but in 1611 it was moved to Warsaw, the current seat of government.
Seventy-five percent of the land lies below 650 feet. The Baltic Sea forms a natural northern border, and the Sudetes and Carpathians form the southern border. Poland does not have any natural borders on the east or west. Polish wars and large scale changes in the borders, both ethnically and …show more content…

Out of the 39.4, 38.1 to 38.5 million were actually ethnic Poles. Worldwide there are an additional 13 million Poles who live abroad. Due to Poland's history of shifting borders and the changes over time in the ethnic policies pursued by both foreign and Polish governments, it is difficult to establish the exact size of ethnic groups.
The largest ethnic minorities include approximately 400,000 Germans and perhaps an equal number of Ukrainians, followed by 275,000 Belarussians, then 25,000 Gypsies, and 13,500 Lithuanians. The over three million people of the Jewish population that inhabited Poland before World War II has been reduced to some six thousand to ten thousand people.
The lingual affiliation of Poland is that of the Slavic group of languages in the Indo-European language family. Literary Polish developed during the sixteenth century and is based on the speech of educated city people, upper class usage, and the Great Polish and Little Polish Dialects. Starting in the nineteenth century, technological and cultural changes introduced a new vocabulary. During the 1920s and 1930s, there was an attempt to coin and introduce a Polish-derived vocabulary for the newly diffused technology. Otherwise, the new vocabulary is taken from German, Latin, Russian, and English. The spelling of diffused words is changed to reflect the Polish …show more content…

The "socialist” city was constructed after World War II to accommodate the rapid increase of people caused by industrialization. The general appearance of this type of city was heavily influenced by what was in practice in the Soviet Union. The city has vast streets and large public areas. Housing consists of four tofive story apartment buildings. Normally, construction was sub-par. Apartments commonly consist of two or three rooms plus a kitchen and a bathroom. All apartments have access to gas, electricity, and municipal water and most have central heating. There is minimal space for parking and children's play. The center of the city is devoted to government buildings, not to commercial outlets and the service sector. Places of employment, especially industry, are located some distance from

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