1. THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA

2. THE FLAG AND THE EMBLEM

4. BASIC INFORMATION: The capital (and the largest city) is Warsaw The total area of Poland is 312,679 km 2 Poland has a population of over 38.5 million people Poland is a member of the European Union, the NATO, the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and many others.

5. CRACOW

6. GDANSK

7. WARSAW The capital of Poland.

8. POLAND'S MASURIAN LAKE DISTRICT

9. THE TATRA MOUNTAINS

10. SOPOT AND THE BALTIC SEA

11. Nicolaus Copernicus - an astronomer and the first person to formulate the heliocentric model, with the Sun in the center of the universe. FAMOUS PEOPLE:

12. Marie Skłodowska-Curie – a French-Polish physicist and chemist, famous for her pioneering research into radioactivity. She discovered two elements, polonium and radium. She received two Nobel Prizes: in Physics and in Chemistry.

13. Frédéric Chopin – a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered to be one of the greatest masters of Romantic music.

14. John Paul II - was the Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the second- longest serving Pope in history and the first non-Italian since 1523.

15. Jan Matejko - was a Polish painter known for paintings of notable national, historical events, both political and military.