Borders of Poland

Poland's old and new borders, 1945 (Kresy in gray)
Borders of Poland with length (NB: The illustrated Polish coastline is 770 km, while the borders at sea is 440 km combined).
Neuwarper See (Jezioro Nowowarpieńskie), a lake divided by a border between Poland and Germany

The Borders of Poland are 3,511 km (2,182 mi)[1] or 3,582 km (2,226 mi) long.[2] The neighboring countries are Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and Lithuania and the Russian province of Kaliningrad Oblast to the northeast. To the north, Poland is bordered by the Baltic Sea.

Breakdown of border lengths per entity:

  1. Czech Republic–Poland border: 796 km (495 mi)[1] or 790 km (490 mi)[2]
  2. Poland–Slovakia border: 541 km (336 mi)[1] or 539 km (335 mi)[2]
  3. Poland–Ukraine border: 535 km (332 mi)[1] or 529 km (329 mi)[2]
  4. Germany–Poland border: 467 km (290 mi)[2][1]
  5. Belarus–Poland border: 418 km (260 mi)[1] or 416 km (258 mi)[2]
  6. Poland–Russia border (Kaliningrad Oblast): 210 km (130 mi)[2][1]
  7. Lithuania–Poland border: 104 km (65 mi)[1] or 103 km (64 mi)[2]
  8. sea (Baltic Sea): 440 km (270 mi)[1] or 528 km (328 mi)[2]

The Polish coastline is 770 km (480 mi) long.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "WARUNKI NATURALNE I OCHRONA ŚRODOWISKA (ENVIRONMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION)". MAŁY ROCZNIK STATYSTYCZNY POLSKI 2013 (CONCISE STATISTICAL YEARBOOK OF POLAND 2013) (in Polish and English). GŁÓWNY URZĄD STATYSTYCZNY. 2013. p. 26. ISSN 1640-3630. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i (in Polish) Informacje o Polsce - informacje ogólne Archived June 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine (archive.org Archived 2005-02-22 at the Wayback Machine ). Page gives Polish PWN Encyklopedia as reference.

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