CZECH REPUBLIC
(Czech Republic. The state in Central Europe.)

Capital: Prague
Currency: Czech koruna (CZK)
Population: 10,3 million people
GDP (PPS): 369 bln. dollars of the USA (2018)
Area: 78,866 sq.km.
IRCHP: 28 (2015)

ABOUT THE COUNTRY

It is the developed country with the developed, high profitability of the social market economy focused on export based on services, production and innovations. Innovations take the 14th place in the field of the human development corrected on inequality. The Czech Republic is the state of general welfare with "continental" European social model, a universal health care system and free university education. It occupies the 6th safest or most peace country and is one of the most not religious countries in the world, at the same time achieving good results in democratic management.

HISTORY

By estimates, 1,4 million Czech soldiers battled in World War I from which about 150 000 people died. Though most of the Czech soldiers battled for the Austro-Hungarian Empire, more than 90 000 Czech volunteers created Czechoslovak legions in France, Italy and Russia where they battled against the central powers, and then against Bolshevist troops. In 1918 during crash of the empire of Gabsburgov at the end of World War I the independent republic Czechoslovakia which joined the winning allied powers was created, and Tomasz Garrig Masarik was in the lead. This new country entered the Czech crown (Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia) and parts of the Kingdom of Hungary (Slovakia and the Carpathian Russia) with considerable minorities in the German, Hungarian, Polish and Carpatho-Russian languages. Czechoslovakia signed the contract on the union with Romania and Yugoslavia (the so-called Small Entente) and, in particular, with France.

GEOGRAPHY

The Czech Republic is in the basic between latitudes 48 ° and 51 °C. highway (the small area is to the north from 51 °) both longitudes 12 ° and 19 °C. highway.
The Czech landscape is extremely various. Bohemia, in the West, consists of the pool exhausted by Elba (Czech: To Laba) and the Vltava Rivers, surrounded with generally low mountains, such as Krkonoshsky ridge of the Sudeten islands. There is the highest point in the country, the Snowball on 1,603 m (5,259 feet). Moravia, east part of the country, also quite hilly. It is exhausted generally by the Morava River, but also contains the Oder River source (Czech: Bed).

NATURE

The Czech Republic has temperate continental climate with warm summer and cold, cloudy and snow winters. The difference of temperatures between summer and is rather high because of the geographical location which doesn't have an outlet to the sea in the winter.
In the Czech Republic of temperature strongly differ depending on height. In general at big heights temperature decreases, and the amount of precipitation increases. The most damp area in the Czech Republic is around Bila Potok in Mountains Yizera, and the driest area - Louni-rayonom in the northwest of Prague.