Czech vs Czechia – which should I use to talk with Czech citizens?

7/10/2018 3:32:12 PM

Both Czechia and Czech Republic are recognized names here. In my personal opinion, the later one is accepted better, because it was longer in use, while the first one was accepted by government without citizens consent.

If you want to try patience of locals, you can try call our country Czechoslovakia, which make some of us laugh (that you live 30 years in a past), but will annoy rest of us 🙂

If you want to make REAL impression, try to call our country in czech language: Česko. It’s a bit tricky to make it with inflection (you can practice here), but the result will be happy face and better attitude towards you!

7/14/2017 3:34:46 PM

Czechia is officially recognized short name for our country. Czech Republic still remains the official name and finally Czech is still a shorthand for it that people commonly use, but is actually errorneous.

See Name of the Czech Republic article on Wikipedia and Go Czechia on myth explanation behind the Czechia name.

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