Everything you need to know about Czechia
Follow Czechia from Prague and Bohemian castles to Moravian vineyards and the industrial heritage of Ostrava. Explore its regions, cities and rivers, discover the histories and everyday traditions behind them, then practise Czech. Czech Republic is the countryโs formal name, while Czechia is its short name.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Czechia
Fourteen regions sit within historic lands whose rivers drain towards three seas.
Know the shape of the country
Start with all fourteen regions, including Prague as a separate region, then place twenty-four selected cities and towns and find four rivers and two reservoirs. Zoom in to distinguish Prague from surrounding Central Bohemia. Region boundaries and rivers: Natural Earth, public domain. Reservoir outlines: ยฉ OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. City coordinates are curated. These are generalised learning maps.
Places worth visiting
Essential ยท Castle
Prague Castle
St Vitus Cathedral rises inside one of the largest castle complexes in the world. Walk down through the Malรก Strana quarter afterward.
Spend days in Prague, then go south to ฤeskรฝ Krumlov, with the castles and vineyards of Moravia to go further. Essential is our shortlist for a first trip, and worth a detour goes further. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Czech with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Czechia, the countries marked guide have a page like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
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