9/ While Poland 🇵🇱 has no territorial exclaves, there is a massive Polish diaspora, especially since Poland joined the EU 🇪🇺 in 2004.
As an example Polish is the second most spoken language in 🇮🇪 Ireland, with Poles making up >2% of the population.
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9/ While Poland 🇵🇱 has no territorial exclaves, there is a massive Polish diaspora, especially since Poland joined the EU 🇪🇺 in 2004. As an example Polish is the second most spoken language in 🇮🇪 Ireland, with Poles making up >2% of the population. 1 comment
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10/ Final bit of #geoweirdness: Polish 🇵🇱 postal codes consist of five digits, but there is a dash between the 2nd and 3rd digits (example: "12-345"), which is good fun for software that assumes postcodes contain only alphanumeric characters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Poland
See our guide to common misconceptions about postal codes:
https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-to-think-about-postcodes-and-geocoding
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