46. Do you know that: The administrative area of Poland is 312,696 km², which gives it 69th place in the world and 9th in Europe. Inhabited by 38,179,800 people (March 2021), it ranks 38th in the world in terms of population and 5th in the European Union. Poland is divided into 16 voivodships. Its largest city and capital is Warsaw. Other metropolises are Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk and Szczecin. The largest Polish polycentric agglomeration is the Upper Silesian conurbation. Poland is an ethnically homogeneous country – 97% of the population declares Polish nationality.