Location: Central Europe, Baltic Sea to the north, surounded by Belarus, the Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.
Capital: Warsaw
Tourist Attractions: Poland has many tourist attractions, including the Auschwitz museum at what was an infamous concentration camp during the Second World War. Among the national parks of Poland, the Bialowieza National Park (UNESCO world heritage) and the Slowinski National Park, replete with lakes, meadows and sand dunes is popular with tourists. Other tourist attractions include the gothic castle of Malbork that is a stupendous fortress with multiple defensive walls and a maze of rooms and chambers and some exquisite architectural details. The Czartoryski Museum, which houses a collection of Oriental armour, artistic handicrafts and European paintings, that include Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with the Ermine and Rembrandt's Landscape with the Good Samaritan is another attraction. The Masurian Lakes and the cities of Warsaw and Krakow are also popular.
Access: Poland has a good network of trains that are connected to most of Europe like Germany, Russia, Romania, Czech Republic, Belgium, Lithuania and Austria.
There are direct flights to Warsaw from major European and American destinations. Tourists can also travel by sea to Poland from UK and Scandinavia
Climate: Summers are mildly warm but wet, while the winters are very chilly and cloudy along with some amount of rainfall.