Map of Poland
Open Poland on the map — framed on the country itself, not on every far-off island it holds — and look at it by population density, by the historical maps of its region, or with the open data below.
Facts
As the source states them, in the source’s own words.
| Capital | Warsaw |
|---|---|
| Area | 312,679 km² |
| Currency | PLN (Polish złoty) |
| Languages | Polish |
Source: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0. Licence: ODbL 1.0, public domain.
Historical maps
IntMap’s historical maps of the regions this outline lies in, on every date the map draws them. A region is a frame on the map, not a statement that Poland existed then: the names on each map are the ones the historical records give.
Dated events in this outline
Events of IntMap’s war record dated to a place inside today’s outline of Poland. Each links to the page of its calendar day, which opens the map on that day.
- 1914
- 1914
First Masurian Lakes — the second Russian army is driven out of East Prussia
World War I · IntMap’s war record
2 September → - 1914
Siege of Przemyśl — the longest siege of the war ends with 120,000 prisoners
World War I · IntMap’s war record
16 September → - 1914
Battle of Łódź — a German encirclement that has to break out of its own trap
World War I · IntMap’s war record
11 November → - 1915
The Winter Battle in Masuria — a Russian corps is surrounded in the Augustów forest
World War I · IntMap’s war record
7 February → - 1915
- 1915
The Great Retreat — Russia gives up Poland, Lithuania and Courland to save its army
World War I · IntMap’s war record
13 July → - 1915
Siege of Novogeorgievsk — the great fortress north of Warsaw surrenders in ten days
World War I · IntMap’s war record
10 August → - 1939
- 1939
Warsaw is bombed for a day by 1,150 aircraft — the heaviest raid of the campaign
World War II · IntMap’s war record
25 September → - 1939
Warsaw surrenders after twenty days of siege and bombardment
World War II · IntMap’s war record
28 September → - 1940
Auschwitz-Birkenau — about 1.1 million people are killed there, the great majority of them Jews
World War II · IntMap’s war record
14 June → - 1940
The Warsaw Ghetto — 400,000 people are sealed into 3.4 square kilometres; about 92,000 die there of hunger and disease
World War II · IntMap’s war record
16 November → - 1941
Białystok–Minsk — the first great encirclement: four Soviet armies are destroyed in seventeen days
World War II · IntMap’s war record
22 June → - 1941
Majdanek — a camp inside a city, where about 78,000 people are killed
World War II · IntMap’s war record
1 October → - 1941
Chełmno — the first camp to kill with gas, in vans; at least 152,000 people die there
World War II · IntMap’s war record
8 December → - 1942
Bełżec — at least 434,500 Jews are killed in nine months; two people are known to have survived
World War II · IntMap’s war record
17 March → - 1942
Sobibór — at least 170,000 Jews are killed in seventeen months
World War II · IntMap’s war record
16 May → - 1942
The Warsaw ghetto is emptied: about 254,000 people are deported to Treblinka in two months
World War II · IntMap’s war record
22 July → - 1942
Treblinka — between 700,000 and 900,000 Jews are killed in thirteen months
World War II · IntMap’s war record
23 July → - 1943
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising — 27 days of fighting, and the ghetto is burned block by block
World War II · IntMap’s war record
19 April → - 1943
The Treblinka revolt — the prisoners burn the camp; about 100 of them live to see the end of the war
World War II · IntMap’s war record
2 August → - 1943
The Sobibór revolt — about 300 prisoners break out and the camp is closed and ploughed over within weeks
World War II · IntMap’s war record
14 October → - 1943
Operation Harvest Festival — about 42,000 Jews are shot at Majdanek, Trawniki and Poniatowa in two days
World War II · IntMap’s war record
3 November → - 1944
The Warsaw Uprising — 63 days, and the Red Army waits on the far bank of the Vistula
World War II · IntMap’s war record
1 August → - 1945
The Vistula–Oder offensive — 500 km in eighteen days, the fastest advance of the war in Europe
World War II · IntMap’s war record
12 January → - 1945
The death marches — the camps in the east are evacuated on foot in winter, and 100,000 to 250,000 prisoners die
World War II · IntMap’s war record
18 January →
Open data about Poland
The datasets IntMap may share about Poland, each under its own terms. The values are in one file: api/v1/countries/POL.json
airports
Public domain, ODbL 1.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: OurAirports, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)
country-facts
ODbL 1.0, public domain · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0
health
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike · non-commercial
Credit: WHO Global Health Observatory — UHC service coverage index & IHR SPAR (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO), World Bank Open Data
language
public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit
Credit: CIA World Factbook, Language identity, genealogical classification and endangerment status — Glottolog (CC BY 4.0)
mobility
ODbL 1.0, public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: OpenFlights — airline route database (country-pair route counts for the pandemic simulator; snapshot of June 2014, no longer updated; ODbL 1.0), OurAirports, World Bank Open Data, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)
religion
public domain · Requires: nothing
What this page states
The outline, the name and the code are Natural Earth’s (admin-0, public domain), the set IntMap’s map draws countries from. The map opens on the frame the app’s country search uses for it: the country itself, not every far-off island it holds.
A historical map is listed when its region’s frame overlaps this outline. It is listed for the place, not for the country: the borders on it are what the historical records draw.
An event is listed when the point the war record gives it falls inside this outline — a fact about the point, not about which state held the place at the time.
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