English > Poland: 1 sense > noun 1, location| Meaning | A republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II. |
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| Synonyms | Republic of Poland, Polska |
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| Instance of | European country, European nation | Any one of the countries occupying the European continent |
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| Members | Pole | A native or inhabitant of Poland |
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| Part of | Europe | The 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia) |
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| Parts | Auschwitz | A Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II |
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| Bydgoszcz, Bromberg | An industrial city and river port in northern Poland |
| Carpathians, Carpathian Mountains | A mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania |
| Cracow, Krakow, Krakau | An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula |
| Czestochowa | A city of southern Poland whose church contains the statue of the black Madonna which attracts many pilgrims |
| Gdansk, Danzig | A port city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea |
| Katowice | An industrial city of southern Poland |
| Lodz | A large city of central Poland |
| Lublin | An industrial city of eastern Poland |
| Oder, Oder River | A European river |
| Prussia, Preussen | A former / former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland |
| Vistula, Vistula River | A European river |
| Warszawa, Warsaw, capital of Poland | The capital and largest city of Poland |
| Wroclaw, Breslau | A city in southwestern Poland on the Oder |
| Zabrze | An industrial city in southern Poland |
| Region of | Tannenberg, battle of Tannenberg | A battle in World War I (1914) |
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| Spanish | Poland, Polonia |
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| Catalan | Polonia, Polònia |
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| Adjectives | Polish | of or relating to Poland or its people or culture |
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