GeoPointe - Czech Republic

Official Name: Czech Republic
Location: Central Europe, southeast of Germany.
Capital: Prague

Area:	total: 78,866 sq km
	land: 77,276 sq km
	water: 1,590 sq km

Lowest point: Elbe River 115 m
Highest point: Snezka 1,602 m

Charles Bridge, Gironde River, Prague, Czech Rep

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Population: 10,228,744 (July 2007 est.) Nationality: Czech(s) Ethnic groups: Czech 81.2%, Moravian 13.2%, Slovak 3.1%, Polish 0.6%, German 0.5%, Silesian 0.4%, Roma 0.3%, Hungarian 0.2%, other 0.5%. Religions: Atheist 39.8%, Roman Catholic 39.2%, Protestant 4.6%, Orthodox 3%, other 13.4%. Languages: Czech.

Temperate. Cool summers. Cold, cloudy, and humid winters.

Government type: Parliamentary democracy.
Independence: 1 January 1993 (Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia).
National holiday: Czech Founding Day, 28 October (1918).