Poland is a development success story. However, the country’s regions face wide-ranging challenges. Therefore, Poland has been selected to participate in the “Catching-Up Regions” project, initiated ...

Discover the feudal origins of these idiosyncratic regions, and get cultural, historical and geographical overviews for all 16. From the seashore cliffs of West Pomerania through the mediaeval ...

Rose's 1900 edition of his octopus map, Photo: public domain A later Japanese variant of the map shows stylised skulls for Poland and Finland – regions for whom the touch of the octopus was deadly. In ...