Map of Poland

Poland is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 52.0° N, 20.0° E. It shares land borders with 7 countries — Belarus, Czechia, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Poland is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Poland shares land frontiers with the following 7 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Poland covers about 312,679 km² (120,726 sq mi). That makes it the 70th-largest country in the world by area and the 9th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 36 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 37,392,000, the 39th-largest in the world and the 7th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 5.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Poland has an average population density of about 120 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 7th by population and 9th by area.

The seat of government is Warsaw, and the official currency is the Polish złoty (PLN, zł), and the main official language is Polish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Poland carries the ISO country codes PL and POL, dials on the international calling code +48 and uses the .pl internet domain.

Poland shares its land borders with 7 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Russia (capital Moscow, about 146,028,325 people), Germany (capital Berlin, about 83,491,249 people), Ukraine (capital Kyiv, about 32,862,000 people), Czechia (capital Prague, about 10,882,341 people), Belarus (capital Minsk, about 9,109,280 people), Slovakia (capital Bratislava, about 5,413,813 people) and Lithuania (capital Vilnius, about 2,894,886 people).

By area, Poland is larger than 4 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 52.0° N, 20.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Poland within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Warsaw. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Poland lies about 5,772 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Poland keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Polish złoty (PLN, zł).

The official language is Polish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +48 and websites commonly use the .pl internet domain.

In short, Poland is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 7 countries. Its capital is Warsaw. Poland has a population of about 37,392,000 and covers around 312,679 km² (120,726 sq mi), ranking it 39th in the world by population and 70th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Poland.

The flag of Poland is composed of two equal horizontal bands of white and red.

The flag of Poland is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.