Why Are There 2 Polands?

The Ghost of Poland’s Past

Tomas Pueyo
16 min readFeb 29, 2024

The split inside the country is so stark and common on maps that Poles have an expression for it: widać zabory, “You can see the partitions”.

Why is there such a partition within the country?

You might have already seen the map below, suggesting an explanation:

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Tomas Pueyo

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