Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Prague
- Region
- Europe, Central Europe
- Population
- 10,886,878 (2025)
- Area
- 78,866 km²
- Currency
- Czech koruna (CZK)
- Languages
- Czech, Slovak
- Calling code
- +420
- Internet domain
- .cz
- ISO codes
- CZ, CZE, 203
- Time zone
- UTC+1:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ### ## (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
The Czechia covers about 78,866 square kilometres. By area it ranks 119th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than United Arab Emirates and a little larger than Panama. It shares a land border with 4 neighbours: Austria, Germany, Poland, Slovakia. It is landlocked, which means it has no sea coast. Its centre lies at about 50° north, 16° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 10.9 million people live in the Czechia (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 89th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.13 percent of the world's people. On average there are 138 people to each square kilometre. About 73 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 80 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Czech, Slovak.
Money and economy
The currency is the Czech koruna (code CZK, symbol Kč). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 391 billion (2025), which is about US$ 35,917 for each person (2025).
Time
The Czechia uses one time zone, UTC+1:00 (Europe/Prague). Clocks are moved for daylight saving time in part of the year.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Prague | 1,165,581 |
| Brno | 404,296 |
| Ostrava | 280,853 |
| Pilsen | 187,863 |
| Liberec | 102,951 |
| Olomouc | 99,496 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Central Europe
Hungary, Slovenia. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.