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Czech Republic overview

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Czech Republic overview

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic, also known by its short-form name, Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast and Slovakia to the southeast. 

 

Symbols

National anthem

Flag

Flag of the Czech Republic[1]

Coat of arms

1920px-Coat of arms of the Czech Republic.svg

Transportation infrastructure

The road network in the Czech Republic is 55,653 km (34,581.17 mi) long.[106] There are 1,232 km of motorways as of 2017.[107] The speed limit is 50 km/h within towns, 90 km/h outside of towns and 130 km/h on motorways.[108]

The Czech Republic has the densest rail network in the world[109] with 9,505 km (5,906.13 mi) of tracks.[110] Of that number, 2,926 km (1,818.13 mi) is electrified, 7,617 km (4,732.98 mi) are single-line tracks and 1,866 km (1,159.48 mi) are double and multiple-line tracks.[111] České dráhy (the Czech Railways) is the main railway operator in the Czech Republic, with about 180 million passengers carried yearly. Maximum speed is limited to 160 km/h. In 2006 seven Italian tilting trainsets Pendolino ČD Class 680 entered service

There is a rich history

 Samo's Empire631–658
 Great Moravia830s–907
14px-P%C5%99emyslovci erb.svgDuchy of Bohemia880s–1198
23px-Flag of Bohemia.svgKingdom of Bohemia1198–1918
23px-Banner of arms of Moravia.svgMargraviate of Moravia1182–1918
23px-Banner of arms of Silesia.svgDuchies of Silesia1335–1742
23px-Flag of Czech Silesia.svgAustrian Silesia1742–1918
23px-Banner of the Bohemian Coat of Arms.svgCrown of Bohemia1348–1918
23px-Banner of the Holy Roman Emperor %28after 1400%29.svgpart of the Holy Roman Empire1002–1806
23px-Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy.svgpart of the Austrian Empire1804–1867
23px-Civil ensign of Austria-Hungary %281869-1918%29.svgpart of Austria-Hungary1867–1918
23px-Flag of the Czech Republic.svgFirst Czechoslovak Republic1918–1939
23px-Flag of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.svg23px-Flag of Germany %281935%E2%80%931945%29.svgProtectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (protectorate of  Nazi Germany)1939–1945
23px-Flag of the Czech Republic.svgCzechoslovakia1945–1992
23px-Flag of the Czech Republic.svgCzech Republic1993–present

Energy

Production of Czech electricity exceeds consumption by about 10 TWh per year, which are exported. Nuclear power presently provides about 30 percent of the total power needs, its share is projected to increase to 40 percent. In 2005, 65.4 percent of electricity was produced by steam and combustion power plants (mostly coal); 30 percent by nuclear plants; and 4.6 percent from renewable sources, including hydropower. The largest Czech power resource is Temelín Nuclear Power Station, another nuclear power plant is in Dukovany.

Economy

The Czech Republic has a developed,[83] high-income[84] export-oriented social market economy based in services, manufacturing and innovation, that maintains a welfare state and the European social model.[85] The Czech Republic participates in the European Single Market as a member of the European Union, and is therefore a part of the economy of the European Union, but uses its own currency, the Czech koruna, instead of the euro.

European social model

Big cities

 NamePop km2Region
25px-Prague flag with CoA.svgPrague (Praha)1391,508 496Prague
25px-Flag of Brno.svgBrno377,028 230South Moravian Region
25px-Flag of Ostrava.svgOstrava314,590 214Moravian-Silesian Region
25px-Flag of Plzen.svgPlzeň177,936 138Plzeň Region
25px-Flag of Liberec.svgLiberec105,229 106Liberec Region
25px-Olomouc flagOlomouc102,134 103Olomouc Region
25px-Flag of Usti nad Labem.svgÚstí nad Labem100,884 94Ústí nad Labem Region

 

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

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Founding fathers

Václav Havel

Vaclav Havel cropped

Country of exceptional people

Karel Čapek

Inventor of the word Robot

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Jaroslav Seifert

Nobel Prize in Literature

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Great humor

America first Czech Republic fifty first?

Otto Wichterle

Inventor of modern soft contact lenses and silon (synthetic fiber).

Prof. Ing. RTDr. Otto Wichterle

Jaroslav Heyrovský

Heyrovský was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of the electroanalytical method, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959 for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis.[2] His main field of work was polarography.[1][3][4][5][6][7]

220px-Heyrovsky Jaroslav

Parts of Czech Republic

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Districts

Okresy %C4%8CR 2007

Population

Population density in the Czech Republic

European eagle-owl

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Map of protected areas

National Parks (grey) and Protected Landscape Areas (green).CHKO%2BNP Czech map

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Fire salamander

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Red squirrel

Veverka obecna

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Backed duck with sauerkraut

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Svíčková

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Great Food

Sweet roll with poppy seed or a fruit preserve

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Beer

Ther first pilsner type of pale lager beer.

Pilsner urquell mug

Vepřo-knedlo-zelo

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Excellent Czech breweries

Svijany

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Pilsner Urquell

1200px-Pilsner Urquell logo.svg

Radegast

 

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Lobkowitz

lobkowitz-logo

Liberec

1920px-Je%C5%A1t%C4%9Bd %2C leteck%C3%BD sn%C3%ADmek

Brno

There are many historical monuments in the city, for example the Špilberk CastleVilla Tugendhat, or the St. Peter and Paul Cathedral.

Masaryk University, the second largest university in the Czech Republic, is there. Among other universities in the city are Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts or Brno University of Technology.

Capital city Prague

There are many tourist attractions and important places in Prague.

1920px-Prague skyline view

Ostrava


Colours of Ostrava

Olomouc

1920px-Olm%C3%BCtz - panorama

Plzeň

Fountian in Main Square Plzen

House of the Black Madonna

800px-Prag Kubismus Schwarze Madonna 1

800px-Case danzanti

Od kotva 2014

800px-PFUK interier

Municipal House

1280px-Jugendstil Prag Gemeindehaus 1

Beautiful Architecture

Villa Tugendhat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Tugendhat

1920px-Vila Tugendhat exterior Dvorak2

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