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Second Polish Republic

country in Central and Eastern Europe (1918–1945)
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Summary

Second Polish Republic is a historical period[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of historical period entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,605 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Second Polish Republic[3]
  • Continent: Europe[4]
  • Instance of: historical country[5], sovereign state[6]
  • Capital: Warsaw[7]
  • Official language: Polish[8]
  • Currency: Polish marka[9], złoty[10]
  • Shares border with: First Czechoslovak Republic[11], Slovak Republic[12], Kingdom of Romania[13], Nazi Germany[14], Lithuania[15], Republic of Central Lithuania[16], Interwar Latvia[17], Soviet Union[18], Weimar Republic[19], Hungarian Soviet Republic[20], Hungary[21]
  • Anthem: Poland Is Not Yet Lost[22]
  • Basic form of government: parliamentary republic[23], presidential system[24], one-party state[25]
  • Follows: Lithuanian–Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic[26], Kingdom of Poland[27], German Empire[28], Austria–Hungary[29], Russian Republic[30]
  • Followed by: General Government[31], Soviet Union[32], Slovak Republic[33], Polish government-in-exile[34]
  • Flag: flag of Poland[35]
  • Legislative body: Sejm of the Republic of Poland[36]
  • Coat of arms: coat of arms of Poland[37]
  • Part of: history of Poland[38]
  • Commons category: Second Polish Republic[39]
  • Inception: November 16, 1918[40]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: July 5, 1945[41]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Second Polish Republic[42]
  • Commons gallery: Second Polish Republic[43]
  • Population: 34,849,000[44]
  • Territory claimed by: Polish Socialistic Soviet Republic[45]
  • Described by source: Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[46]
  • Replaces: Kingdom of Poland[47], Rada Narodowa Księstwa Cieszyńskiego[48], Regency Council[49], Austria–Hungary[50], Cisleithania[51]
  • Replaced by: Polish People's Republic[52], Polish Underground State[53], Polish government-in-exile[54]

Body

Identity

Short names include Polska[55] and Польша[56].

Why It Matters

Second Polish Republic has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[57] It is known by 93 alternative names across languages and contexts.[58]

Related Entities

Andrew Schally Antoni Grabowski Austria–Hungary Belarus Bolesław Bierut Bronisław Malinowski Bruno Schulz Bydgoszcz Communist Party of Upper Silesia Congress Poland Dūkštas Edward Rydz-Śmigły Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski First Czechoslovak Republic flag of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz German Empire history of Poland Ignacy Daszyński Independent Peasant Party Instytut Torfowy Jan Łukasiewicz Janusz Kusociński Jerzy Kawalerowicz John Paul II Jonas Basanavičius Joseph Conrad Józef Piłsudski Karol Szymanowski Kazimierz Świątek

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [57] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [58] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11d ago · WąskaZimny · 2026-10-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Shares border with → First Czechoslovak Republic, Slovak Republic, Kingdom of Romania +9
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|4 */ Shares border with: Hungary"
  2. 11d ago · WąskaZimny · 2026-10-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 67
    Wikidata description → country in Central and Eastern Europe (1918–1945)
    Dissolved, abolished or demolished date → +1945-07-05T00:00:00Z
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'br', 'ca'
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 5 July 1945"
  3. 14w ago · PaleoWolf · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coat of arms image → Coat of arms of Poland (1928–1939).svg
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Coat of arms image: Coat of arms of Poland (1928–1939).svg"
  4. 24w ago · Clemens Dulcis · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Replaces → Kingdom of Poland, Rada Narodowa Księstwa Cieszyńskiego, Regency Council +2
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Replaces: Cisleithania"
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