Saturday, December 1, 2007

OUR COUNTRY POLAND







Hello Portugal, we'd like to tell you a few words about our country.
The total area of Poland is 312,679 km². Poland's population is over 38.5 million people. The longest river is the Vistula. In the South of Poland there are high Tatra Mountains. In the North Poland we have the access to Balstic Sea. Poland has many lakes and Masuria lakes are the biggest.The climate is mostly temperate. Summers are warm, with average temperatures between 20 °C and 27 °C . Winters are cold, with average temperatures around –8 °C. Animals that live in the forests are mostly such as deer, boars, wisent, brown bear, wolf, fox, lynx, beaver, many birds.
The capital city of Poland inWarsaw, and the most popular cities are: Kraków, , Wrocław, Zakopane, Gdańsk.
The colours of the Polish national flag are red and white - two stripes of equal width displayed horizontally, with the white at the top. The Coat of Arms of Poland consists of a white eagle on a red field.

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