1. The name "Poland" originates from the name of the tribe "Polanie" which means "people living in open fields".
2. Poland has 120,562 square miles (312,255 km2) of the area, which makes the country slightly smaller than New Mexico.
3. Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004.
4. Poles are well educated and about 90% of Poland's youths complete secondary education and 50% have an academic degree.
5. Poland held its first free elections in more than 40 years in 1989.
6. Poland boasts 17 Nobel prize winners, including four Peace Prizes and five in Literature.
7. Polish has the second largest number of speakers among the Slavic languages after Russian.
8. The Fiat was the first mass-produced car in Poland and 10,000 were sold before the eve of WWII.
9. The biggest section of any grocery store in Poland is the candy section.
10. The Polish alphabet consists of 32 letters.
11. A popular drink in Poland, orangeade or oranzada, is a sweet carbonated drink with an orange taste that originated in France.
12. Poland is home to one of Europe’s great lake districts.
13. Germany and Poland are pretty good friends these days.
14. Beer is often served with raspberry or blackcurrant juice and drunk using a straw.
15. Poles love their cold cut and Polish butcher shops or "sklep miesny" are known for their enormous selection.
16. Poland is largely ethnically homogeneous with minorities including Ukrainian, Belorussian, Slovakian, Lithuanian and Germans.
17. Poland has 120,562 square miles (312,255 km2) of the area, which makes the country slightly smaller than New Mexico.
18. The Polish flag has two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red; the colors derive from the Polish emblem, which is a white eagle on a red field.
19. The last Polish monarch, Stanisław Poniatowski, died in prison in 1798 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
20. Poland was the only European country which never officially collaborated with the Nazis at any level, and no Polish units fought alongside the Nazi army.
21. Napoleon Bonaparte met the Polish elite and his future mistress, Countess Maria Waleska, in the ballroom of Warsaw’s Zamek Królewski (Royal Castle) in 1806.
22. Marie Curie (Manya Sklodowska) was born in Warsaw (Warszawa), Poland, on November 7, 1867. She moved to Paris in early 1880 and married Frenchman Pierre Curie in 1895.
23. Polish-born Michael Marks arrived in Britain in the 1880s, fleeing persecution of the Jews in Russian-controlled Poland.
24. The highest mountain in Australia, Mount Kosciuszko, was named after Polish General Tadeusz Kościuszko, who fought against the Russian Empire as well as in the American Revolutionary War.
25. Poles drink, on average, 92 liters of beer a year, which places Poland third in consumption in Europe behind Germany and the Czech Republic.
26. Pierogi, or Polish dumplings, are one of the most recognizable Polish dishes outside of Poland.
27. Poland has a history of producing high-quality vodka for more than 500 years.
28. Roman Catholicism is so popular in Poland that there is a television channel dedicated to the pope.
29. The first Olympic medal in winter sports won by a Polish national was a bronze won by skier Franciszek Gąsienica Groń in 1956.
30. Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius published the earliest exact maps of the moon.
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