General Information

Capital:

Prague 1,209,855 (1996 est.)

Area:

78, 703 sq km (30,450 sq mi)

Form of government

Republic

GDP per capita

Purchasing power parity-$11,700 (1999 est.)

Population

10,280,513 (July 1999 est.)

Ethnic composition

Czech - 94.4%

Slovak - 3.0%

Polish - 0.6%

German - 0.5%

Roma - 0.3%

Hungarian - 0.2%

Other - 1.0%

Updated (December 2003)

According to the most recent Population and Housing Census carried out on March 1, 2001, 416,104 persons (4 percent of the population) declared a national identity other than Czech (Czech, Moravian, Silesian). The results of this voluntary and anonymous declaration of national identity are as follows.

POPULATION OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC ACCORDING TO NATIONAL IDENTITY

Source: Minority-language Related Broadcasting and Legislation in the OSCE, Program in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP), Center for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford University & Institute for Information Law (IViR) (http://www.ivir.nl/index-english.html), Universiteit van Amsterdam (Study commissioned by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities), April 2003, edited by T. McGonagle (IViR), B. Davis Noll & M. Price (PCMLP), http://www.ivir.nl/publications/mcgonagle/Minority-language%20broadcasting.pdf

Official Language(s)

Czech

Minority Language(s)

Slovak, German, Polish, Romany

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