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The border comes from the border of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, which later became the border between the German Empire and the Austrian Empire. In the period 1945–1990, the West German–Czechoslovak border formed part of the Iron Curtain and was heavily fenced and strictly guarded. The Czech Republic joined the Schengen Area in 2007 ...
This is a list of municipalities of the Czech Republic which have status of a city, town or market town granted by law. As of 2024, there are 27 cities, 583 towns and 232 market towns in the Czech Republic. The population is shown in brackets and is current to 1 January 2024. [1]
The Czech Republic also possesses Moldauhafen, a 30,000 m 2 enclave in the middle of Hamburg docks in Germany, which was awarded to Czechoslovakia by Article 363 of the Treaty of Versailles to allow the landlocked country a place where goods transported down river could be transferred to seagoing ships. This territory reverts to Germany in 2028.
The Czech Republic, [c] [12] also known as Czechia, [d] [13] and historically known as Bohemia, [14] is a landlocked country in Central Europe.The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. [15]
The Czech Republic is bordered by Poland to the north, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east. Its capital and largest city, with 1.3 million inhabitants, is Prague. It is a pluralist multi-party parliamentary representative democracy, a member of the European Union, NATO, the OECD, the OSCE, the Council of Europe ...
Austria–Czech Republic border (1 C, 4 P) C. Cross-border railway lines in the Czech Republic (16 P) G. Czech Republic–Germany border (1 C, 22 P) P.
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Some place names were merely Germanized versions of the original Czech names, as seen e.g. from their etymology. The compromise of 1867 marked a recognition of the need for bilingualism in areas where an important portion of the population used another language; the procedure was imposed by official instructions in 1871. [1]