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Czechia is a landlocked country in Central Europe that was formerly Bohemia. Bordered by Slovakia, Austria, Germany, and Poland, Czechia is the 116th largest country in the world by area.
On July 5, 2016, the Czech Republic registered its short-form name, Czechia (pronounced CHECK-iya). Politicians wanted to change the name to make it easier for companies and sports teams to use it on their products. Additionally, they wanted an easier version of the name for English speakers. Both Czechia and the Czech Republic are correct when referring to the country.
64% of Czechia’s population is Czech, followed by Moravians (5%), Slovaks (1.4%), Poles (0.4%) and Germans (0.2%). At the last census in 2011, “nationality” was optional and about 26% left this blank. It’s estimated that Czechia is home to 250,000 Romani people, as well as 440,000 foreigners, the largest group being Ukranian (140,000) followed by Slovak, Vietnamese, Russian and Polish.
The Nazis almost completely destroyed the Jewish population in the region, which dropped from 118,000 in 1930 to just 4,000 in 2005.
Czech (57.3%)
Moravian (3.4%)
Other (7.7%)
Unspecified (31.6%)
The main religion in Czechia is None.
None
Unspecified
Roman Catholic
Protestant
Other
The country has one of the least religious populations globally with the third-highest percentage of atheists (34%) after China and Japan. The Czech people have historically been considered indifferent toward religion in general. A poll in 2010 found that just 16% of Czechs say they do believe in a God, which is the lowest rate among all European Union countries.
While part of the economy of the European Union, Czechia uses its currency, the Czech koruna, and has a fairly stable economy on its own. The Czech economy is highly dependent upon their exports, and services like high tech engineering, electronics, automotive, and machine-building account for 60% of their GDP. The industry sector makes up most of the remainder of their economy. Agriculture makes up a small 2.5% of the nation’s GDP and includes products like cereals, vegetable oils, and hops. The government in Czechia is a unitary parliamentary constitutional republic, which means that there is both a president in charge of the state and a prime minister that leads the government.
Evidence of prehistoric human settlements in the region date back to the Paleolithic era, and modern-day Czechia has been inhabited and conquered by many groups over its long history. About 1.4 million people from Czechoslovakia fought in World War 1, and by 1938, the country was 10th in world industrial production. It was eventually occupied by Germany and later peacefully divided into Czechia and the Slovak Republic in 1993.
