in world by area size: 114
country name: Czech Republic
capital city: Prague
continental position: Europe
country area: 78866.00
currency of country:
Czech koruna
currency code: CZK
country top level domain: .CZ
country telephone code: 420
languages spoken in country:
Czech
ethnic composition of country:
Czech 90.4%, Moravian 3.7%, Slovak 1.9%, other 4% (2001)
religious composition of country:
Roman Catholic 27%, Protestant 2%, unaffiliated 59% (2001)
first sovereignty: 935
last date of control by an external government: Sep 20, 1968
external goverment in question: Warsaw Pact
historic timeline where available:
Unified under Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, who acceded to the throne in 935. Later part of Austria-Hungary until 1918 independence as Czechoslovakia. Occupied by Germany in 1938, by WWII Allies in 1945, and by Warsaw Pact armies in 1968.