🇨🇿 Czechia

Where is Czechia?

Czechia lies in Central Europe, on the continent of Europe.

It sits in the northern half of the world, roughly 5 538 km from the equator.

Czechia is landlocked: it has no coast at all, so you cannot reach the sea without crossing another country.

It shares a border with 4 countries: Austria, Germany, Poland and Slovakia.

How big is Czechia?

Czechia covers 78 865 square kilometres.

That is about 30 times the size of Luxembourg.

Among the world's countries that makes it the 115th largest.

If everybody spread out evenly, there would be about 134.8 people on every square kilometre.

Who lives in Czechia?

About 10.6 million people live in Czechia.

That is the 85th biggest population in the world.

People here speak Czech and Slovak.

They pay with the Czech koruna (Kč).

On average, people born here can expect to live about 75 years.

The land of Czechia

The land in Czechia sits on average 433 metres above sea level.

Because it is landlocked, everything that arrives by ship has to cross one of its 4 neighbours first.

It lies between the tropics and the poles, which is the single biggest reason its weather is the way it is.

What makes Czechia different?

A dish the country is known for: roast pork with dumplings and sauerkraut.

Websites from here often end in .cz.

Czechia and the rest of the world

Out of every thousand people alive on Earth, about 1 live in Czechia.

It takes up about 0.06 % of all the land that countries stand on.

Within Europe it is the 21st largest of 45 countries, and the 13th most populated.

That is busier than the world average of roughly 60 people per square kilometre.

Czechia and its neighbours

Germany, its largest neighbour, is about 4.5 times bigger.

Germany has more people: 82.9 million against 10.6 million.