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 Poland is a middle -sized country with a 38,000,000 population and a total area of 312683km2 ranking the 9th in Europe and the 66th on the world. It's a little larger than Britain and Italy, occupying 3% of European area. Poland is on the ancient trade passage which is the confluence of nowadays European north-south and west-east main traffic lines, the midpoint of the European Continent. The Baltic Sea is her north border. There are 3 big ports which load Poland to the world: Gdynia, Gdansk and Szczecin. Carpathian mountains and the Tatra Mountains is the south border of the country. The low lying river "Bug" winds as her east border, which the busy freighted "Odder" river is her west border. The longest river of Poland "Vistula" with a length of 1047km, crossing the center of the country from the north to the south. Capital of the Nation Warsaw lies right by the River.Poland is basically a country with low-lying plains. The average height of the country is 170m above the sea level. But her natural scenery is not monotonous. Cookie layers can be found in lots of places- there're usually beautiful down and highlands. The highest place of Poland is the peak "Rsai" with a height of 2499m above the sea level. Average temperature of Poland raises -1~5℃ in January while 17~19℃ in July. Annual rainfall raises 500~1200mm.
There're rich natural resources in Poland. It has huge reverses of hard coal, brown coal non-iron medal ore sand, especially lead-zinc, copper, nickel, cobaltic grit and sulfur, rock salt and potassium salt etc.. Poland is also one of the largest silver producers of the world. The most developed industrial departments of Polish economy are machinery industry, food service industry, light industry (especially textiles), chemical industry, electronics industry and fuel energy industry. The basic units of the agricultural producing of Poland are middle and small-scaled farmers. Black wheat, Potatoes, feed plants, sugar beet and rape. The feeding of pig flocks and herbs is also well developed.
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