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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 ...
The border between the modern states of Austria and Germany (German: Grenze zwischen Deutschland und Österreich) has a length of 815.9 km (507.0 mi), [1] [2] or 817.0 km (507.7 mi) [3] respectively. It is the longest international border of Austria and the tied longest border of Germany with another country (the other one being the border with ...
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]
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.
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 provinces of German Austria.The Bohemian Forest Region is the area in orange north of the current boundary of Austria (red line).. The Bohemian Forest Region was historically an integral part of the Habsburg constituent Kingdom of Bohemia but, with the imminent collapse of Habsburg Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I, areas of the Czech-majority Bohemia with an ethnic German majority ...
Czech Republic: Europe: Austria / Germany / Poland / Slovakia: Denmark: Europe: Germany *Atlantic Ocean / Baltic Sea / North Sea: Djibouti: Africa: Eritrea / Ethiopia / Somalia *Indian Ocean / Red Sea / Gulf of Aden: Dominica: Caribbean: Atlantic Ocean / Caribbean Sea: Dominican Republic: Caribbean: Haiti: Atlantic Ocean / Caribbean Sea: East ...
The Ore Mountains (German: Erzgebirge, Czech: Krušné hory) lie along the Czech–German border, separating the historical regions of Bohemia in the Czech Republic and Saxony in Germany. The highest peaks are the Klínovec in the Czech Republic (German: Keilberg ) at 1,244 metres (4,081 ft) above sea level and the Fichtelberg in Germany at ...