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THE FIRST CIRCLES
Your Polish people.In your own words. You don’t have to speak Polish to belong.
Small, hosted gatherings in English. People who grew up outside Poland, too. Free to join.
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Your people are Small, hosted circles in English, for people with Polish roots. Join the interest list; we’ll email you when a host and date are confirmed.
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How these places are mapped Points represent reviewed city or locality centres, not houses. Numbered clusters count localities, not people. Historical wording stays with each record; present-day map borders do not establish nationality. Ambiguous places remain in the timeline without a pin. Family trees are contributor claims, not independently verified records.
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Archive metadata: Historisch Centrum Limburg via Open Archives · CC0 . Family-tree adaptations: WeRelate contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0, with attribution on each profile. Images are not included.
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Your roots. Your people. Polovia is a place for people with Polish roots, wherever they call home. Explore Polish places around the world and find common ground through stories and shared experiences. English is welcome.
The map is open. The community is an interactive preview. You can join the interest list for the first small gatherings in English; we’ll share a host and date when they are ready.
The atlas shows cultural connections, not registered members. No Polish-language skills or family tree required.
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Know what the map means. The atlas contains 138 country estimates published by Statistics Poland, based on Ministry of Foreign Affairs information, with a May 2025 reference date. “Polonia and Poles abroad” is a broad category; methods and definitions differ across countries.
Figures are estimates, not live counts, and not registered users. A missing estimate means missing coverage, not zero people. Smaller countries may be easier to select through search or the country ranking.
Statistics Poland metadata · Original dataset
Public discovery is a curated subset of the Statistics Poland / MSZ 2025 organisations atlas. Blank rows, generic unnamed coverage and entries without an explicit Polish connection are excluded. Repeated descriptions are consolidated. Source phrases are retained in their original language; some entries describe several institutions and are not counted as individual venues. Original source · CC BY 4.0 .
Official resources include the ORPEG Polish-schools directory and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Polish Institutes network. Extracted directory facts: gov.pl / ORPEG / MSZ, CC BY-SA 4.0 . Names, websites and city matches are reviewed separately; dates and source links appear on each card. Official-directory inclusion is not confirmation of current opening or eligibility. Independent listings are not partners.
Polacy na Świecie informed our design and source research. Its catalogue has not been republished: a public page is not an open-data licence.
Map: OpenFreeMap with MapLibre GL JS. Positron style derived from OpenMapTiles / CartoDB, with a graphite Polovia palette; style licence . Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. The service has no guaranteed uptime. A lightweight fallback and the country ranking and place search remain available if the map cannot load. Natural Earth public-domain geography provides country selection outlines and schematic country/region anchors. Spain’s local branches use INE Polish-nationality counts at 1 January 2025 (CC BY 4.0), a narrower definition than the country diaspora estimates. US state and county branches use the Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 ACS estimates of reported Polish ancestry, with 90% margins of error. Germany adds 2024 AZR Polish-citizenship figures by state; England and Wales add 2021 Poland-born census figures by region and local authority, excluding Scotland and Northern Ireland; Canada adds 2021 Polish ethnic/cultural-origin estimates by province and territory. France adds 2023 Poland-born immigrant estimates with incomplete territorial coverage. Belarus adds 2019 self-reported Polish ethnicity by region and Minsk city. The Netherlands adds 2026 registered residents of Polish origin under CBS birthplace/parental-birthplace rules, by province and municipality. Australia adds 2021 Census Polish-ancestry counts by state, territory and statistical area; non-spatial categories remain unplaced and confidentiality adjustments are preserved. Ireland adds 2022 census counts in the Polish and Irish–Polish citizenship categories across 31 administrative counties and cities. Ukraine adds a clearly labelled historical snapshot of Polish ethnicity in 27 census areas in 2001, not a current distribution. Birthplace, nationality, citizenship, origin, ancestry and broad Polonia estimates are distinct measures. Published rounding and disclosure differences are preserved; Attribution is retained below and in the downloadable datasets.
