Czechia

Czechia

Czechia ranks 22nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Argentina, Belgium, and Greece. Memorable people born in present day Czechia include Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, and Gregor Mendel. Memorable people who died in Czechia include Gregor Mendel, Giacomo Casanova, and Antonín Dvořák. Czechia has been the birth place of many soccer players and politicians and the death place of many politicians and writers.

The Czech Republic, also called by its short-form name, Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the east. The Czech Republic has hilly landscape that covers an area of 78,866 square kilometers (30,450 sq mi) with a mostly temperate continental climate and oceanic climate. It is a unitary parliamentary republic. Read more on Wikipedia