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Poland is located in Central Europe. It borders on seven countries. To the north is the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, as a result of which Poland also borders on Russia. Other neighboring countries of Poland are Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Germany.
To the north is the Baltic Sea. As a result, Poland has 524 kilometers of coastline. Several islands also belong to Poland. The largest Baltic island is Wolin. The island of Usedom shares Poland with Germany.
Poland has several landscapes. The coast is followed by smaller mountains, which are joined to the south by a lowland. In the south there are higher mountains.
There are two harbors on the Polish Baltic coast. These are areas that are separated from the actual sea by headlands or islands. The Szczecin Lagoon in the far west belongs to Poland. Poland shares it with Germany and a distinction is made between the German Kleine Haff and the Polish Große Haff. The Szczecin Lagoon is separated from the open Baltic Sea by the islands of Usedom and Wolin.
At the very east, in turn, is the Vistula Lagoon, which with its eastern part belongs to Kaliningrad. The Vistula Lagoon is separated from the Baltic Sea by the Vistula Spit, a narrow strip of land.
The mountains of Poland in the south include the Sudetes, the Forest Carpathians and the Holy Cross Mountains. In the Tatra Mountains is Poland’s highest mountain, the Rysy with an altitude of 2503 meters.
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