Pilica (river)
Pilica is a river in central Poland, the longest left tributary of the Vistula river, with a length of 333 kilometres and a basin area of 9,258 km2.
Kampinos
Kampinos National Park
Kampinos National Park is a National Park in east-central Poland, in Masovian Voivodeship, on the north-west outskirts of Warsaw. It has a sister park agreement with Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana, United States.
Mazovian Lowland
The Mazovian Lowland, also known as the Masovian Plain, is the largest geographical region in central Poland, roughly covering the historical region of Masovia. Sometimes it is also categorized as including Mazovian-Podlasian Lowlands which together form part of the greater East European Plain.
Łomianki
Łomianki is a town in Warsaw West County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland. It had a population of 16,374 in 2008, and 24,328 in 2016.
Janów Forests Landscape Park
Janów Forests Landscape Park,, is a Polish Landscape Park designated protected area in southeastern Poland.
Masurian Landscape Park
Masurian Landscape Park is a designated Polish Landscape Park protected area within Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.
Nida Landscape Park
Nida Landscape Park is a Polish Landscape Park designated protected area, located in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship of south-central Poland.
Iława Lake District Landscape Park
Iława Lake District Landscape Park or Iława Lakeland Scenic Park is a protected area in northern Poland. Established in 1993, the park is part of the geographic region called Pojezierze Iławskie. It includes Jeziorak lake and the Lasy Iławskie spread out on the west side of Jeziorak. It covers the area of 250.45 square kilometres (96.70 sq mi).
Knyszyn Forest Landscape Park
Puszcza Knyszyńska Landscape Park is a protected area in Podlaskie Voivodeship of northeastern Poland.
Niepołomice Forest
Niepołomice Forest is a large forest complex in western part of Sandomierz Basin, about 20 km east of Kraków (center). It is made up of a few protected areas which used to constitute a single virgin forest originally. Niepołomice Forest occupies an area between Vistula and Raba rivers. The main complex covers about 110 km2 (42 sq mi). It is situated between the towns of Niepołomice, Baczków, Krzyżanowice and Mikluszowice.
Sandomierz Wilderness
Sandomierz Wilderness is one of the biggest forests in southern Poland; covering large parts of the Sandomierz Basin. Its name comes from the historical city of Sandomierz, and in the Middle Ages its eastern edge created a natural border between Lesser Poland and Red Ruthenia.
Geography of Poland
Poland is a country in East-Central Europe with an area of 312,679 square kilometres, and mostly temperate climate. Generally speaking, Poland is an almost unbroken plain reaching from the Baltic Sea in the north, to the Carpathian Mountains in the south. Within that plain, terrain variations run in bands east to west. The Baltic coast has two natural harbors, the larger one in the Gdańsk-Gdynia region, and a smaller one near Szczecin in the far northwest. The northeastern region, also known as the Masurian Lake District with more than 2,000 lakes, is densely wooded and sparsely populated. To the south of the lake district, and across central Poland a vast region of plains extends all the way to the Sudetes on the Czech and Slovak borders southwest, and to the Carpathians on the Czech, Slovak and Ukrainian borders southeast. The central lowlands had been formed by glacial erosion in the Pleistocene ice age. The neighboring countries are Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and Lithuania and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to the northeast.
Vistula River Gorge of Lesser Poland
The Lesser Poland Gorge of the Vistula is a geographical region located in central-eastern Poland, which administratively belongs to three Polish voivodeships – Lublin, Masovian, and Świętokrzyskie. The Gorge is for the most part made by the valley of the Vistula, with two Polish uplands on both sides of the river – Lesser Poland Upland to the west, and Lublin Upland to the east. The gorge is about 70 kilometers long, extending from the town of Zawichost in the south, to Puławy in the north. It is considerably narrow, only up to 3 kilometers wide. In some places, the banks of the Vistula valley are very steep, up to 70 meters above the water level.