Where do they exactly live?

                                       In USA: Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York ( States)

    Chicago 1.8 Mil ( after  Warsaw the second biggest polish  city)1

                Detroit    0.9 Mil ( More than Krakow but less than Lodz or Tri City)2

                New York Metropolitan Area  0.6 Mil 3

                Cleveland, Buffalo, Milwaukee, Columbus, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia,

                Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Washington, Seattle, Sandusky,

                Pulaski, cities with polish names like Warsaw ( emigration: 1850- 1990 ) 

In Germany: West Germany (old emigration and em. from 1980s)

                        Ruhrgebiet 700.000 (Dortmund, Krefeld, Recklinghausen, Bochum)

                        Berlin (180.000), Hamburg( 100.000),Bremen, Hannover,Munich...)4 

In Brazil: Curitiba in Parana State   ,           In Ukraine: Lwow and Zytomiez 

In France: Paris..,           In Belarus: Grodno region,            In Canada: Toronto.... 

In Russia: Syberia,             In Lithuania: Wilno (120.000= 20%)          

More detailed information concerning  the cities and regions the Polish Diaspora lives you can find under “polonia-rozmieszczenie” 

By the way, I want to say hallo to my friend Natasa in Ljubljana- Slovenia. 

1 Chicago Jackowo (Milwaukee Av.) and Chicago- Hook

2 Detroit Hamtramck

3 NYC Brooklyn- Greenpoint

4Hamburg- Billstedt/ Mümmelmansberg

  Berlin Tempelhof 

TRI CITY is the GDANSK- SOPOT- GDYNIA METROPLITAN AREA                                 

         Michael Pieslak, e-mail: m.pieslak@12move.de