21 Facts About Czech Republic

1. Czech Republic, known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

2. Czech Republic is a unitary parliamentary republic and developed country with an advanced, high-income social market economy.

3. The Czech Republic is a member of NATO, the European Union, OECD, OSCE, and the Council of Europe.

4. Czech Republic is honoured to this day as a national hero.

5. The Czech Republic joined NATO on 12 March 1999 and the European Union on 1 May 2004.

6. On 21 December 2007 the Czech Republic joined the Schengen Area.

7. Phytogeographically, the Czech Republic belongs to the Central European province of the Circumboreal Region, within the Boreal Kingdom.

8. The wettest area in the Czech Republic is found around Bily Potok in Jizera Mountains and the driest region is the Louny District to the northwest of Prague.

9. From 1993 until 2012, the President of the Czech Republic was selected by a joint session of the parliament for a five-year term, with no more than two consecutive terms.

10. The basis of the legal system is the Constitution of the Czech Republic adopted in 1993.

11. The embassies of most countries with diplomatic relations with the Czech Republic are located in Prague, while consulates are located across the country.

12. The President of the Czech Republic is Commander-in-chief of the armed forces.

13. 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.

14. In 2018 the largest companies by revenue in the Czech Republic were: automobile manufacturer Skoda Auto, utility company CEZ Group, conglomerate Agrofert, energy trading company EPH, oil processing company Unipetrol, electronics manufacturer Foxconn CZ and steel producer Moravia Steel.

15. Czech Republic is reducing its dependence on highly polluting low-grade brown coal as a source of energy.

16. One of the tourist attractions in the Czech Republic is the Nether district Vitkovice in Ostrava.

17. The Czech Republic was ranked 24th in the Global Innovation Index in 2020 and 2021, up from 26th in 2019.

18. Education in the Czech Republic is compulsory for nine years and citizens have access to a free-tuition university education, while the average number of years of education is 13.1.

19. Czech Republic is known for Art Nouveau posters and his cycle of 20 large canvases named the Slav Epic, which depicts the history of Czechs and other Slavs.

20. Literature from the area of today's Czech Republic was mostly written in Czech, but in Latin and German or even Old Church Slavonic.

21. Two leading sports in the Czech Republic are football and ice hockey.