Population (2017)
Poland - 38,858,000
Warsaw - 1,763,615
Kraków - 766,739
Bydgoszcz - 352,313

Languages
Polish
Gwara Bydgoska - a local dialect of Polish still used by some in Bydgoszcz and the surrounding region.

Territory
Poland - 312,685 square kilometres (9th largest in Europe)
Bydgoszcz - 176 square kilometres

Borders
Baltic Sea (528km), Kaliningrad (210km), Lithuania (103km), Belarus (416km), Ukraine (529km), Slovakia (539km), Czech Republic (790km) and Germany (467km)

Waterways
Bydgoszcz's city centre is located on both sides of the Brda River - a tributary of the Wisła (Vistula), Poland's longest river.

Local Time
Central European (GMT+1hr).
Polish summer time (GMT+2hrs) starts and ends on the last Sundays of March and October.