Geography
Location: Central Europe, southeast of Germany
Area:
total: 78,866 sq km
land: 77,276 sq km
water: 1,590 sq km
Climate: temperate; cool summers; cold, cloudy, humid winters
Terrain: Bohemia in the west consists of rolling plains, hills, and plateaus surrounded by low mountains; Moravia in the east consists of very hilly country
Economy
GDP: $199.4 billion (2005 est.)
GDP growth rate: 6% (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $19,500 (2005 est.)
Inflation rate: 1.9% (2005 est.)
Currency: Czech koruna (CZK)
Exchange rates: koruny per US dollar - 23.957 (2005), 25.7 (2004), 28.209 (2003), 32.739 (2002), 38.035 (2001)
People
Population: 10,235,455 (July 2006 est.)
Growth rate: -0.06% (2006 est.)
Religions: Roman Catholic 26.8%, Protestant 2.1%, other 3.3%, unspecified 8.8%, unaffiliated 59% (2001 census)
Government
Capital:
name: Prague
time difference: UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
Independence: 1 January 1993 (Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia)
