Czechia March 9, 2023 Austria-Hungary , Bohème Moravie , Bohemia , Brno , Central Europe , Česká republika , Czech republic , Czechia , Czechoslovakia , Eastern Europe , Elbe , Europe , European Union , Karlovy Vary , landlocked country , Liberec , Moravia , Moravie , Olomouc , Ostrava , patrimonium of mankind , Plzen , Prague , Praha , Silésie , Slovakia , tourism , UNESCO Official name Czechia (Czech Republic) Name in local language Česká republika (cs) Continent Europe Subcontinent European Union Population (ranking: 87e ) 10,526,937 inhabitants (2023) Population growth 0.15 % / year Area 78,867 km² Density 133.48 inhabitants / km² GDP (ranking: 41e )281.778 billions $USD (2021) GDP/capita (ranking ) 26,821 $USD (2021) GDP growth 3.50 % / year (2021) Life expectancy (ranking ) 77.30 years (2022) Birth rate 10.40 ‰ (2019) Fertility rate 1.63 children / woman (2016) Death rate (ranking ) 10.80 ‰ (2019) Infant mortality rate (ranking ) 2.80 ‰ (2019) Literacy rate 100.00 % (2023) Official languages Czech Currency Czech koruna (Kč CZK) HDI (ranking: 42e )0.889 / 1 (2021) EPI (ranking )67.68 (2018) Government Unitary parliamentary constitutional republic Head of State President Petr Pavel National Day 28 October (Independence from Austria-Hungary in 1918) ISO Codes CZ, CZE Demonym Czech Tourists (ranking ) 14,283,000 people (2018)
Czechia (Czech Republic) is a central European country without access to the sea , surrounded by Poland to the northeast, Germany to the northwest and west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the southeast. Grouping together the historic regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and part of Silesia, the Czech Republic has been independent since 1 January 1993 on the occasion of the split of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, in other words Czechoslovakia, which thus included Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Prague, Czechia Charles Bridge, Prague, Czechia Mountains in Czechia Countryside in Czechia Urban areas (2019) Urban areas Population Prague 2,002,930 inhabitants Ostrava 1,111,281 inhabitants Brno 803,497 inhabitants Ústí nad Labem 734,303 inhabitants Olomouc 473,451 inhabitants Hradec Králové - Pardubice 441,344 inhabitants Plzeň 382,847 inhabitants Liberec 265,339 inhabitants České Budějovice 255,966 inhabitants Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) 203,356 inhabitants Zlín 191,711 inhabitants Kolín - Kutná Hora 176,974 inhabitants Mladá Boleslav 129,136 inhabitants Příbram 114,778 inhabitants Tábor 102,497 inhabitants
Administrative divisions Regions (Kraje) Population Area Central Bohemia (Středočeský) 1,369,332 inhabitants 11,016 km² Hradec Králové (Královéhradecký) 551,021 inhabitants 4,759 km² Karlovy Vary (Karlovarský) 294,896 inhabitants 3,314 km² Liberec (Liberecký) 442,356 inhabitants 3,163 km² Moravia-Silesia (Moravskoslezský) 1,203,299 inhabitants 5,427 km² Olomouc (Olomoucký) 632,492 inhabitants 5,267 km² Pardubice (Pardubický) 520,316 inhabitants 4,519 km² Plzeň (Plzeňský) 584,672 inhabitants 7,561 km² Prague 1,308,632 inhabitants 496 km² South Bohemia (Jihočeský) 642,133 inhabitants 10,057 km² South Moravia (Jihomoravský) 1,187,667 inhabitants 7,195 km² Ústí nad Labem (Ústecký) 820,789 inhabitants 5,335 km² Vysočina 509,274 inhabitants 6,796 km² Zlín (Zlínský) 582,921 inhabitants 3,963 km²
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