What is the capital of Poland?

The capital of Poland is Warsaw.

Warsaw, called Warszawa in Polish, stands on the Vistula River in east-central Poland. It became the country’s capital in the late 16th century, when King Sigismund III Vasa moved the royal court from Kraków. Kraków remains one of Poland’s most important historic and cultural cities, but it is not the national capital.

Warsaw was the political center of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and later served as the capital of Napoleon’s Duchy of Warsaw. During World War II, the city suffered immense destruction, including the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. Much of its historic center was rebuilt after the war and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Gdańsk, Wrocław, and Kraków are major Polish cities, which makes them plausible distractors, but none is the country’s constitutional seat of government. Warsaw is also Poland’s largest city and the capital of the Masovian Voivodeship.