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Capital: warsaw
Country name
: conventional long form: republic of poland conventional short form: poland local long form: rzeczpospolita polska local short form: polska
National holiday: constitution day. 3 may (1791)
Government type
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republic
Administrative divisions: 16 provinces (wojewodztwa. singular - wojewodztwo); dolnoslaskie. kujawsko-pomorskie. lodzkie. lubelskie. lubuskie. malopolskie. mazowieckie. opolskie. podkarpackie. podlaskie. pomorskie. slaskie. swietokrzyskie. warminsko-mazurskie. wielkopolskie. zachodniopomorskie |
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Independence:
11 november 1918 (independent republic proclaimed)
Political parties and leaders: catholic-national movement or rkn [antoni macierewicz]; civic platform or po [donald tusk]; conservative peasants party or skl [artur balazs]; democratic left alliance or sld [wojciech olejniczak]; democratic party or pd [wladyslaw frasyniuk]; dom ojczysty (fatherland home); german minority of lower silesia or mnso [henryk kroll]; law and justice or pis [jaroslaw kaczynski]; league of polish families or lpr [marek kotlinowski]; peasant-democratic party or pld [roman jagielinski]; polish accord or pp [jan lopuszanski]; polish peasant party or psl [waldemar pawlak]; ruch patriotyczny or rp [jan olszewski]; samoobrona or so [andrzej lepper]; social democratic party of poland or sdpl [marek borowski]; social movement or rs [krzysztof piesiewicz]; union of labor or up [izabela jaruga-nowacka]
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Political pressure groups and leaders:
all poland trade union alliance or opzz (trade union) [jan guz]; roman catholic church [cardinal jozef glemp]; solidarity trade union [janusz sniadek]
International organization participation
: acct (observer). australia group. bis. bsec (observer). cbss. ce. cei. cern. eapc. ebrd. eib. eu. fao. iaea. ibrd. icao. icc. icct. icftu. icrm. ida. ifc. ifrcs. iho. ilo. imf. imo. interpol. ioc. iom. iso. itu. miga. minurso. monuc. nam (guest). nato. nsg. oas (observer). oecd. opcw. osce. pca. un. unctad. undof. unesco. unhcr. unido. unifil. unmee. unmil. unmis. unoci. unomig. upu. wcl. wco. weu (associate). wftu. who. wipo. wmo. wtoo. wto. zc
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