Geography

Poland is bordered in the north to the Baltic Sea, the East Lithuania, Belarus, Russia. Federation and Ukraine, in the south of the Czech and Slovak Republic and in West Germany.
Poland has a very varied landscape. Looking at the entire country from a bird’s eye perspective, as one sees in the south of the Carpathian mountains and the Sudeten. A part of the Carpathian Calculate the Tatra Mountains, which is the only mountain range in Poland Alpine character. In the south, one sees the Beskid and the Bieszczady Mountains. North dominate the two rivers Vistula (1047 km long) and the Oder (742 kilometers) with its numerous tributaries the landscape.
The Masurian Lakes, with its two largest lakes, the Sniadrwy lake (106 square kilometers) and the Mamry Lake (104.9 square miles) is particularly attractive countryside and the Baltic Sea in the north of Poland, with its vast sandy beaches, the dunes in the middle Coastal and high cliffs.
Poland is a country of fascinating nature. A paradise for geologists and bird enthusiasts are the Sudeten and their approaches. The Bialowieska Forest beckons with its unspoiled nature and the world-famous reserve for bison. The Wieliczka salt mines in Bochnia and are among the oldest in operation salt mines in the world.