Czech Blog

28/09/2021

21/09/2021

12. Soft contact lenses were invented by a Czech chemist.
It was Otto Wichterle who invented the soft contact lenses in 1959.

13. Johan Gregor Mendel was born in the Czech Republic.
Mendel set the groundwork for genetics and inheritance principles still studied in biology classes around the world today.

14. The world “robot” was created by the Czech artist Josef Čapek.
It was first used by Czech author Karel Čapek in his novel R.U.R. It was his brother Josef Čapek who is credited with creating the word.

15. The Czech Republic is one of the least religious countries in the world.
Around 39.8% of Czechs consider themselves atheist and 13.4% are undecided.

16. The country is famous for tennis, particularly female players
Czech Martina Navratilova has been statistically the second-best female player of the 20th century, right behind Steffi Graf. Today, there are 8 female Czech players in the top 100 world rankings. The Czech Fed Cup team has also won six Fed Cup titles since 2011.

20/09/2021

9. Prague’s nickname is “the city of a hundred spires”
The Czech capital city has lived up to this name and more, as today there are over 500.

10. The most popular sport is ice hockey.
The men’s national ice hockey team is one of the major powers in world hockey. Many Czech players have been successful in the NHL, most notably Jaromir Jagr, who is considered one of the greatest NHL players ever. The highest-level ice hockey league in the Czech Republic is Czech Extraliga. The league usually takes place between September and April and features 14 professional teams.

11. The Czech Republic is a country of architecture.
Baroque, Gothic, Renaissance, Romanesque, Classicism, Art-Nouveau, Cubism, Functionalism and even architecture of the Communist era are all on display around the country.

20/09/2021

6. The Czech Republic’s highest point of elevation is Sněžka.
Sněžka is located in the Krkonoše mountains and its peak reaches 1,603 meters.

7. Prague’s Old Town is home to the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world.
Every hour, it’s mechanical processional of apostles delights tourists.
8. As already mentioned, beer is a big deal in the Czech Republic
Czech people are the world’s heaviest consumers of beer. The first pale lager, Pilsner Urquell, was brewed in the Czech city Pilsen in 1842

20/09/2021

3. It has the most castles in Europe.
There are over 2000 castles and chateaux in the Czech Republic, more than in any other country in Europe. Some of the most famous ones are the Hluboká Castle, Orlík Castle, Lednice Castle and Karlštejn Castle.

Beautiful old castle in forests with autumn landscape. Castle Pernstejn - Nedvedice. Europe Czech Republic.

4. The Czech Republic is home to the largest ancient castle in the world.
The largest ancient castle in the world is the Prague Castle, 570m long and 128m wide.

5. The Elbe River rises in the country.
One of the major rivers in Central Europe with a river basin spanning four countries (Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, and Poland) is formed by the confluence of numerous headwater streams in the Krkonoše Mountains of the northern Czech Republic.

20/09/2021

The Czech Republic ranks as the seventh safest country to live in the world.
In the 2019 Global Peace Index, the country has placed in top ten safest countries similarly to previous years.

2. The country’s expat community is huge.
There are more than 535,000 foreign-born residents living in the Czech Republic excluding the ones who already obtained the Czech citizenship. Around 200,000 of them are living in Prague.

18/09/2021

1. The Czech Republic is completely surrounded by mountains (except for the southern part of the country on the border with Austria and Slovakia). The mountains run along the Czech border with Germany and Poland.

2. The highest point in the Czech Republic is Mount Snezhka, 1600 m high, located in the Krkonoše Mountains.

3. There are 87 operating airports in the Czech Republic, of which 6 are international and 4 are military. The largest is Prague's Vaclav Havel International Airport.

4. The population of the Czech Republic is 10.5 million people.

5. There is NO SEA in the Czech Republic!

6. Czechoslovakia has not existed for 24 years, forget about it.

18/09/2021

The name of the country comes from the ethnonym of the Slavic tribe of Czechs, known since the V century. In turn, the ethnonym "Czech" is formed by the diminutive formant * -xъ from Proto-Slavic. * čel-, reflected in the words * čelověkъ and * čelędь, that is, the internal form of this word is “member of the genus” [9].

In Roman sources of the I century. N. e. the territory is referred to as "Boiohaemum" - "country of the battles" (battles - the Celtic tribe), whence the name "Bohemia" [10].