Czechia
Czechia (officially Czech Republic) is a country in Central Europe, with its capital at Prague, and is home to roughly 10.9M people.
Its official languages are Czech, Slovak; the currency in circulation is Czech koruna (Kč); people from here are called Czech.
- »It has more castles per square kilometre than any other country in Europe.
- »Czechs drink more beer per person than anyone else in the world.
Czechia touches four neighbours: Austria to the south, Germany to the northwest, Poland to the northeast and Slovakia to the east. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Prague was the seat of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV and escaped serious bombing in the Second World War, leaving a largely intact medieval and baroque centre.
78,441 km² (30,286 sq mi), 114th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Serbia.
Population 10,905,028, 88th of 198 on file. That averages 139 per km² (360 per sq mi).
The white and red are Bohemian; the blue triangle was added in 1920 to distinguish it from Poland's. When Czechoslovakia dissolved in 1993 both successors agreed not to use the old flag. Then the Czech Republic kept it anyway.