República Checa
Area: 78,865 km'
Population: 10,330,000 (ranked fourteenth in Europe)
Constitution: a republic with a president and an elected bicameral parliament.
Neighbouring countries: Germany, Poland, Slovakia and Austria.
Capital city: Prague
Official language: Czech
Currency: 1 crown (CZK) = 100 hellers
Ethnic composition:
94 % Czechs (including Moravians and Silesians)
3 % Slovaks
1.3 % Romanies
0.6 % Poles
0.5 % Germans
0.6 % Others
Religious affiliation: Roman Catholic, various Protestant churches; 40 % of the population is of no denomination
Average temperatore / rainfall:
Prague 9.7 °C / 491 mm
Brno 8.8 °C / 531 mm
Highest mountain: Sněžka (in the Giant Mountains), 1602 m above sea level
Deepest chasm: Macocha, 138 m
Lowest point: surface of the Elbe at the border with Germany, 117 m above sea level
Longest rivers: the Elbe: 1165 km (415 km within the CzechRepublic) the Vltava: 433 km
Largest lake: the Black Lake (Černé jezero) in the Bohemian Forest, 18.2 ha, 40.5 m deep
Largest artificiallakes: Lipno Reservoir: 4870 ha
Orlík Reservoir: 721.9 million m3 of water
Rožmberk Lake: 489 ha (at the end of the 16th century, it had an area of 1000 ha)
Longest tunnel: road tunnel: Prague Strahov, 2002 m; rail tunnel: the Klatovy-Železná Ruda rai1 route, 1747 m
Longest bridge: the Žďákov Bridge, 541 m
Highest church spire: the Church of St. Bartholomew in Pilsen, 103 m
Largest cities:
Prague 1,216,000 inhabitants
Brno 390,000 inhabitants
Ostrava 325,000 inhabitants
Pilsen 172,000 inhabitants
Olomouc 106,000 inhabitants
Liberec 101,000 inhabitants







