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<title>
The Czech Republic: Geography
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Czech Republic
Geography</hdr><body>
<p>Location: Eastern Europe, between Germany and Slovakia
</p>
<list>
<l>Area:</l>
<l> total area: 78,703 km2</l>
<l> land area: 78,645 km2</l>
<l> comparative area: slightly smaller than South Carolina</l>
</list>
<p>Land boundaries: total 1,880 km, Austria 362 km, Germany 646
km, Poland 658 km, Slovakia 214 km
</p>
<p>Coastline: 0 km (landlocked)
</p>
<p>Maritime claims: none; landlocked
</p>
<p>International disputes: Liechtenstein claims 620 square miles
of Czech territory confiscated from its royal family in 1918;
the Czech Republic insists that restitution does not go back
before February 1948, when the Communists seized power;
unresolved property dispute issues with Slovakia over
redistribution of Czech and Slovak Federal Republic's property;
establishment of international border between Czech Republic and
Slovakia
</p>
<p>Climate: temperate; cool summers; cold, cloudy, humid winters
</p>
<p>Terrain: two main regions: Bohemia in the west, consisting of
rolling plains, hills, and plateaus surrounded by low mountains;
and Moravia in the east, consisting of very hilly country
</p>
<p>Natural resources: hard coal, kaolin, clay, graphite
</p>
<list>
<l>Land use:</l>
<l> arable land: NA%</l>
<l> permanent crops: NA%</l>
<l> meadows and pastures: NA%</l>
<l> forest and woodland: NA%</l>
<l> other: NA%</l>
</list>
<p>Irrigated land: NA km2
</p>
<p>Environment: NA
</p>
<p>Note: landlocked; strategically located astride some of oldest
and most significant land routes in Europe; Moravian Gate is a
traditional military corridor between the North European Plain
and the Danube in central Europe
</p></body></article></text>