Polish Republic may refer to:
- First Polish Republic: applied in hindsight to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, an elective monarchy also called Noble Republic. See also Rzeczpospolita, Constitution of May 3, 1791
- Second Polish Republic: the name applied to the Republic of Poland between World War I and World War II
- Polish People's Republic: the official name of Poland from 1952 to 1989, under communist control since 1944
- Third Polish Republic: the current state of Poland, since 1990
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