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
See also
