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The article presents the distinctiveness of the Polish country against the background of the European country. The author uses a term of a model hoping that it will enable to distinguish the features of country – general and universal ones and to describe them within the framework of selected contexts and relations. The authority of Władysław Grabski (1874–1938), the father of the rural sociology in Poland, opened a way to reflections on the country, whereas the Europe 2020 strategy closed them in a dimension that is common for Poland and other European Union countries.