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Poland

Poland is one of the 193 UN member states, in Eastern Europe. UN Tourism counted 88.5 million international arrivals there in 2019, more visited than 97% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Ink.

Poland’s stamp in Globestamp
Ink · 40 million international visitors a year or more
International arrivals
88.5 millionin 2019, UN Tourism
Rank by visitors
7th of 199most visited first
Stamp finish
Inkrarer than 3%
Area
312,216 km² (120,547 sq mi)
Population
38 millionNatural Earth estimate
Voivodeship|Provinces
16in Globestamp’s regions layer
Airports
15with scheduled flights
World Heritage Sites
16on Globestamp’s list

Does Poland count as a country?

Yes. Poland is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

ListCounts Poland?
UN member states (193)Yes, a member
Globestamp’s countries and territories (250)Yes
Travelers’ Century Club (330)Yes, as Poland
European UnionYes, a member state
Schengen areaYes, since 21 December 2007

The Poland stamp

Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. Poland’s is Ink: plain rubber-stamp ink, the finish for places with 40 million international visitors a year or more. With 88.5 million international arrivals in 2019, Poland is more visited than 97% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.

What counts as a visit to Poland

The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts Poland when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.

Places in Poland you can collect

Under the country itself, Globestamp keeps layers of places on your globe, and a photo taken at one ticks it. These are the ones it knows in Poland, from 16 World Heritage Sites.

World Heritage Sites 16

Auschwitz (1979) · Białowieża Forest (1979) · Malbork Castle (1997) · Centennial Hall (2006) · Wooden tserkvas of Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine (2013) · Warsaw Old Town (1980) · Churches of Peace (2001) · Wooden churches of Southern Lesser Poland (2003) · Kraków Old Town (1978) · Medieval Town of Toruń (1997) and 6 more. On the bucket list →

National parks 16

Białowieża National Park · Słowiński National Park · Tatra National Park · Bieszczady National Park · Biebrza National Park · Wolin National Park · Babia Góra National Park · Kampinos National Park and 8 more. On the bucket list →

Famous landmarks 1

Wawel Castle. On the bucket list →

Ski resorts 9

Zakopane · Zieleniec · Ski resort Czarna Góra · Szymoszkowa Chairlift · Zieleniec ski resort · Jastrzębica SKI and 3 more. On the bucket list →

Theme parks 16

Energylandia · Silesian Amusement Park · Centrum Edukacji i Promocji Regionu w Szymbarku · Majaland Kownaty · Park of Poland · GEOsfera Jaworzno and 10 more. On the bucket list →

Zoos and aquariums 30

Warsaw Zoo · Wrocław Zoological Garden · Krakow Zoo · Zoo Opole and 26 more. On the bucket list →

Botanical gardens 34

Botanic Garden of the Jagiellonian University · Wrocław University Botanical Garden · Botanical garden in Łódź · Wojsławice Arboretum and 30 more. On the bucket list →

Science museums and planetariums 22

Copernicus Science Centre · Silesian Planetarium · Museum of Technology, Warsaw · Film Museum in Lodz and 18 more. On the bucket list →

Largest cities

CityPeople (urban area)
Katowice2,746,000
Warsaw1,707,000
Łódź758,000
Kraków756,000
Gdańsk740,000
Bytom662,247
Wrocław634,893
Poznań623,997

Airports

Poland has 15 airports with scheduled flights, 11 of them large. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).

16 voivodeship|provinces to fill in

Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits Poland into 16 voivodeship|provinces (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.

All 16

Greater Poland Voivodeship · Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship · Lesser Poland Voivodeship · Łódź Voivodeship · Lower Silesian Voivodeship · Lublin Voivodeship · Lubusz Voivodeship · Masovian Voivodeship · Opole Voivodeship · Podkarpackie Voivodeship · Podlaskie Voivodeship · Pomeranian Voivodeship · Silesian Voivodeship · Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship · Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship · West Pomeranian Voivodeship

Questions people ask

Is Poland a country?

Yes. Poland is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

How many tourists visit Poland a year?

UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 88,515,000 international arrivals in Poland in 2019, the 7th most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.

How rare is a Poland stamp in Globestamp?

It is printed in Ink, the finish for places with 40 million international visitors a year or more, rarer than 3% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.

Does Poland count for the Travelers’ Century Club?

Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Poland”, one of its 330 destinations.

Places as rare as Poland

Near Poland

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