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Poland is the fifth-most populous country of the European Union and the ninth-largest country in Europe by area. The territory of Poland covers approximately 312,696 km 2 (120,733 sq mi), of which 98.52% is land and 1.48% is water. [1] The Polish coastline was estimated at 770 km (478 mi) in length. [2] Poland's highest point is Rysy, at 2,500 ...
Energy in Poland. The Polish energy sector is the fifth largest in Europe. [1] By the end of 2023, the installed generation capacity had reached 55.216 GW, [2] while electricity consumption for that year was 167.52 TWh and generation was 163.63 TWh, [3] with 26% of this coming from renewables. [4]
Coal in Poland. Coal in Poland is partly mined and partly imported. 144 million metric tons of coal was mined in 2012, providing 55 percent of that country's primary energy consumption. Poland is the second-largest coal-mining country in Europe, after Germany, and the ninth-largest coal producer in the world. The country consumes nearly all the ...
Ecoregions in Poland. Terrestrial ecoregions of Poland. Central European mixed forests. Baltic mixed forests. Western European broadleaf forests. Carpathian montane conifer forests. Poland is part of four terrestrial ecoregions, one freshwater ecoregion, and one marine ecoregion. These ecoregions are defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature ...
Most of Silesia is located in 3 voivodeships (Silesia, Lower Silesia and Opole) Silesia [a] (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within modern Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately 40,000 km 2 (15,400 sq mi), and the population is estimated at 8,000,000.
The total area of the nature reserves in Poland has expanded since 1980 when they covered only about 80,000 hectares (200,000 acres). [4] By 1990 this increased to 117,000 hectares (290,000 acres) (0.37% of the territory of Poland) [2] Their number has also expanded (in 2000 they numbered 1307). [3] However, the area of the natural reserves ...
Agriculture in Poland has always been an important part of the country's economy. Out of the 18.727 million hectares (46.28 million acres) of agricultural land (about 60 percent of Poland's total area), 14.413 million hectares (35.62 million acres) were used for crop cultivation, 265 thousand hectares (650 thousand acres) for orchards, and ...
There are currently ten such reserves in Poland, including trans-boundary reserves shared between Poland and neighboring countries. [1] (Reserve POL 01) Babia Góra, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, 11,829 ha (29,230 acres), designated 1976, extended in 2001. The reserve is located on the border with Slovakia in the Western Beskidy Mountains.