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Geography

Location: Central Europe, southeast of Germany

Area:
total area: 78,703 sq km
land area: 78,645 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than South Carolina

Land boundaries: total 1,880 km, Austria 362 km, Germany 646 km, Poland 658 km, Slovakia214 km

Coastline: 0 km


People

Population: 10,432,774 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 19% (female 981,918; male 1,030,003)
15-64 years: 68% (female 3,529,411; male 3,530,112)
65 years and over: 13% (female 848,599; male 512,731)

Population growth rate: 0.26% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 13.46 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 10.85 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 8.9 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 73.54 years
male: 69.87 years
female: 77.41 years

Total fertility rate: 1.84 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Czech 94.4%, Slovak 3%, Polish 0.6%, German 0.5%, Gypsy 0.3%, Hungarian 0.2%, other 1%

Religions: atheist 39.8%, Roman Catholic 39.2%, Protestant 4.6%, Orthodox 3%,other 13.4%

Languages: Czech, Slovak

Literacy: can read and write
total population: 99%
male:
female:


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Czech Republic
conventional short form: Czech Republic

Type: parliamentary democracy

Capital: Prague

Independence: 1 January 1993 (from Czechoslovakia)

Constitution: ratified 16 December 1992; effective 1 January 1993


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $76.5 billion

National product real growth rate: 2.2%

National product per capita: $7,350

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10.2%

Unemployment rate: 3.2%

Electricity:
capacity: 14.470,000 kW
production: 56.3 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 4,842 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The Mother Nature was kind to Olympic athletes and spectators. The average high temperature during the Games was 89 degrees with an average low of 72 degrees. Highest temperature registered (20 July) - 99 degrees. Lowest high temperature registered is 79 degrees (28 July).