i need info on poland for a project, and ive been searching all over the web, but haven't found anything.
i need info on:
Economics: best industries and money making products
History/ Government: what's interesting and good ( no ' in 1967 the communist leader Person Guy came and ....')
Geography: greatness and natural resources
Culture: people lifestyles are fascinating and attractive
as you can see, its sort of a biased project :-). the object is to make people want to visit poland. if you know anything on any one of these things, please respond.
also, id like to know where the name of the capital city 'warsaw' came out of.
thanks :-) ok people, ive already used books, k? and ive found nothing. k? for everyone telling me to look it up myself and that its so easy: i have been searching for 3 days and haven't found anything. look at the stuff im actually asking first. INTERESTING STUFF. Here you go:
Economics:
Poland is considered to have the strongest economy of all eastern European nations, with an annual economic growth rate of over 6.0%. The privatisation of small and medium state-owned companies and a liberal law on establishing new firms has encouraged the development of the private business sector, which has been the main drive for Poland's economic growth. One of the incentives to small businesses is that you will only pay half of the national insurance contributions for the first two years of your business, this is indeed a big incentive to the private business sector economic growth as many small businesses have taken up this offer.
The agricultural sector remains the main problem for Poland in the future, due to surplus labour, inefficient small farms, and a lack of investment. A lot of restructuring needs to be done through the EU, and unfortunately many small farms need to be modernised and a lot of them will simply just die or remain hobby farms.
Restructuring and privatisation of "sensitive sectors" (e.g., coal), has also been slow, but recent foreign investments in energy and steel have begun to turn the tide. Recent reforms in health care, education, the pension system, and state administration have resulted in larger than expected fiscal pressures. Improving this account deficit and tightening monetary policy, with focus on inflation, are priorities for the Polish government. Further progress in public finance depends mainly on privatisation of Poland's remaining state sectors, the reduction of state employment, and an overhaul of the tax code to incorporate farmers, who currently pay significantly lower taxes than other people with similar income levels.
Major Polish companies
PKN Orlen is a major European oil refiner, and petrol retailer. The company as of June 2006 is Poland's and Central Europe's largest publicly traded firm with major operations in Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, and the Baltic States.
http://www.orlen.pl/cgi-bin/internet.exe...
Telekomunikacja Polska
Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. (also known as TPSA or just TP) is a Polish national telecommunications provider established in December of 1991. Public company traded on Warsaw Stock Exchange, controlling stake is owned by France T茅l茅com and Kulczyk Holding, with the latter controlling over 50% of this stake by 2002. It operates the following services: PSTN, ISDN, ADSL, IDSL, Frame Relay, ATM and Inmarsat. The company owns PTK Centertel, the operator of GSM 900/1800 network Orange Polska and NMT450i network, which is currently used as WLL (wireless local loop) in rural areas.
No English webpage
Polskie G贸rnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo
Polskie G贸rnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo (PGNiG, Polish Petroleum and Gas Mining) is a Polish state-owned oil and natural gas company, which deals with the exploration and production of natural gas and crude oil, natural gas import, storage and distribution and sales of natural gas and crude oil. It owns around 16,400 km of transmission pipelines. PGNiG is one of the largest companies in Poland.
PGNiG plans to build an LNG import terminal in 艢winouj艣cie by the end of 2011 with a capacity of 2.5 billion cubic metres (bcm) of LNG per year.
No English webpage
Powszechny Zak艂ad Ubezpiecze艅
Powszechny Zak艂ad Ubezpiecze艅 (PZU) is the oldest and the biggest insurance company in Poland.
PZU was founded in 1803 and in 1952 was granted monopoly on insurance by the Communist government. Due to its former monopolistic position it is still the biggest insurance company.
It has also been involved in a series of political controversies.
Chairman鈥檚 of PZU: due to missing funds.
Zak艂ady Azotowe, Pu艂awy
Chemical Producer
Zaklady Azotowe "PULAWY" has been the leader of the Polish fertilizers sector for over forty years. The location of the company in the Central Europe and precisely in the Middle East part of Poland has facilitated success of the company in both the demanding market of the European Union and the dynamically developing eastern markets. The company products are also constantly present in the American market. According to recent ratings, the company is one of the Polish twenty biggest exporters; almost half of its production is exported.
At present, Zaklady Azotowe Pulawy is the only company in Poland that produces melamine and the largest worldwide with the production capacity of 92 thousand tonnes a year. The company supplies 10% of the world demand and 20% of the European demand for the product.
http://www.zapulawy.pl/index.php?lang=GB
Geography of Poland
Poland is a country in Central Europe, east of Germany. Generally speaking, Poland is an unbroken plain reaching from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Carpathian Mountains in the south. Within that plain, terrain variations generally run in bands from east to west.
The Baltic coast lacks natural harbours except for the Gda艅sk-Gdynia region and Szczecin in the far northwest. The north-eastern region, called the Lake District, is sparsely populated, and lacks agricultural and industrial resources. To the south and west of the lake district, a vast region of plains extends to the Sudetes on the Czech and Slovak borders to the southwest and to the Carpathians on the Czech, Slovak, and Ukrainian borders to the southeast.
The country extends 664 kilometres from north to south and 689 kilometres from east to west. Poland's total area is 312,683 square kilometres, including inland waters. The neighbouring 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 province of Kaliningrad to the north-east.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_o...
Culture of Poland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Cult...
History of Poland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_hist...
Warsaw (Polish spelling Warszawa)
An older spelling of Warsaw in Polish is Warszewa or Warszowa, meaning "owned by Warsz". History attributes the city name to a fisherman Wars and his wife Sawa. Actually, Warsz was a nobleman (12th/13th century) who owned a village located at the site of today's Mariensztat neighbourhood.
The official city name in full is The Capital City of Warsaw (Polish: Miasto Sto艂eczne Warszawa). Warsaw has been known in Latin as Varsovia. A native or resident of Warsaw is called Varsovian.
I have tried to cover all your questions with links and a bit added by myself, if you want to know anything else then please message me :O) OMG i am doing that EXACT same kind of project too! omg!! im doind poland too! well this is a GREAT website our teacher told us about (im in a 7th grade advanced class), here it is....
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications...
its a great website...good luck!
p.s. im polish, and if u have to bring in food, i would suggest bringing in pierogies! The internet is not the be-all and end-all. Go to the library and find books on Poland. Go to the travel agent and get some brochures on Poland. That will show you how Poland sells itself to tourists. Some of the culture is based on where you live. In krakow they wear traditional outfits at weddings. When you go to the mountains some people where there "goralskie" outfits [they wear them at weddings too].
good luck on your project!
poland is a great country to visit! if i was to make a serious project the net wud be only an additional source of knowledge and also its not that difficult to go to google n find things there as everything is there, i bet if u went to Wikipedia or Polish gov site u wud find everything u need so i think its kinda crazy to ask a q of this kind cos the answer is SOOOOOOOOOO wide n ppl who answer to it wud have to do a research that can be done by u n i think its stupid for em to copy n paste things they get from wikipedia ;)
the questions u have asked are so easy to find on the net (since u dont wanna use books) so i advice u goin to google n find what u need n u wont waste ur time on gettin the answers that show u wikipedia links or tellin u to go get books etc lol
what u shud do to make ur project cool is ask questions in here ask sth that cant be found on the net n then add it to ur project, u have a great opportunity to talk to us-the native ppl n i bet we all wud be happy to help u answering ur qs, tellin u sth interesting, talk bout places to visit that arent well known by foreigners even tho they deserve bein visited, talk bout stereotypes, cos i dont know if u r aware that ppl in here do not listen to Polka music (its not even Polish) when i was in the States ppl kept askin me if i like Polka n i was like "what??" lol seriously i have NEVER met a Polish person listenin to that kinda music, there are many alike stories to be told which u cant really find in the books or the net so try to come up w/some qs so u cud make ur project interesting by doin so u wud show ur teacher that u did a great job, i bet most projects like that are based on facts from the books only n dont have this real-life side, use us-the natives in makin ur project like not any other (once my country was the biggest in Europe =) and our language was spoken by many ppl who at that time found it fancy to speak it just like French or Latin)
also if u do a research and u wanna confirm sth then ask it in here, i read many things on Poland online n i found some things written there funny n not true ;)
so dont waste time on askin bout economy or natural resources since all things like that are on wikipedia n alike
u didnt do anything in tryin to find the info u need u lil cheater =) i thought u wont find the etymology of Warszawa but it was on wikipedia n ive found it there, it says: "An older spelling of Warsaw in Polish is Warszewa or Warszowa, meaning "owned by Warsz". Folk etymology attributes the city name to a fisherman Wars and his wife Sawa. Actually, Warsz was a nobleman (12th/13th century) who owned a village located at the site of today's Mariensztat neighbourhood"
broadly speakin Warszawa contains two words that are names of two ppl-spouses
(folk etymology, we have maaaaaaany folk stories Warsaw itself has many)
here are some links:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw
http://www.pgi.gov.pl/mineral_resources/
http://snookems.com/poland/phistory.htm
http://www.polandtrade.com.hk/new/eng/po...
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/pltoc.html
http://www.warszawa3d.prv.pl/indexang.ht...
http://culture.poland.com/
http://www.poland.pl/
http://www.poland.gov.pl/
http://www.santas.net/polishchristmas.ht...
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Basic_Polis...
http://www.pgsa.org/refdesk.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous_Pole...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pol...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Amer...
if u have some qs, add em its gonna be cool to answer u =)
i bet many ppl didnt even wanna bother themselves answering ur qs cos its a huuuge n a deep topic u gotta be more specific n have the basic job done on ur own as u have sooo many resources |
