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The Czech Republic's official long and short names at the United Nations are Česká republika and Česko in Czech, and the Czech Republic and Czechia (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ k i ə /) in English. [1] All these names derive from the name of the Czechs, the West Slavic ethnolinguistic group native to the Czech Republic.
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]
Until 2004, every woman who married in the Czech Republic and wanted to change her name had to adopt a feminine surname, unless her husband was a foreigner whose name ended in a vowel or she was a registered member of a Czech minority group. A law passed in 2004 allows all foreign women, and Czech women who marry foreign men, to adopt their ...
The Czech Republic emerged from the peaceful breakup of the old Czechoslovakia in 1993 -- but until now there hasn't been a standard one-word English name.
ISO 3166-2:CZ is the entry for Czechia in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
The Czech national identity card (Czech: občanský průkaz, citizen card, literally civic certificate; Czech pronunciation: [ˈoptʃanskiː ˈpruːkas]) is the identity document used in the Czech Republic (and formerly in Czechoslovakia), in addition to the Czech passport. It is issued to all citizens, and every person above 15 years of age ...
at least one parent is a legal resident of the Czech Republic (i.e. that they are permitted to reside in the Czech Republic for more than 90 days). Abandoned children aged less than 15 years found on the territory of the Czech Republic (where the identity of the parents cannot be established) are deemed to be Czech citizens. [4]
In the Czech Republic, identity numbers given to people at birth and used in documents reveal a person's sex. The Czech language also has different endings for the surnames of males or females.