POLAND

POLAND

Poland as a state begins in the middle of the 10th century. By the mid-16th century, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that ruled a vast tract of land in central and eastern Europe. During the 18th century, internal disorders weakened the nation, and in a series of agreements in 1772. during the cold war, it became a Soviet satellite state following the war, but its government was comparatively tolerant and progressive. Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004. With its transformation to a democratic.

• GDP:4.4%
• GDP (per capita):$20,600
• UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: 12.4%
• POPULATION: 38,415284
• RELIGION:Roman Catholic 89.8%
  Eastern Orthodox 1.3%
  Protestant 0.3%
  other 0.3%
  unspecified 8.3%
• PRESIDENT: Bronisław Komorowski
• PRIME MINISTER: Donald Tusk