Capital: Warsaw

Continent: Europe

Location: Central Europe, east of Germany

Climate: temperate with cold, cloudy, moderately severe winters with frequent precipitation; mild summers with frequent showers and thundershowers

Population: 38,536,869 (July 2006 est.)

Languages: Polish 97.8%, other and unspecified 2.2% (2002 census)

Religions: Roman Catholic 89.8% (about 75% practicing), Eastern Orthodox 1.3%, Protestant 0.3%, other 0.3%, unspecified 8.3% (2002)

Currency: zloty