Czech Republic
(Ceska republika; Ukr: Чеська Республ?ка; Cheska Respublika). A republic in Central Europe, bordering on
Poland
to the north,
Austria
to the south,
Germany
to the west, and
Slovakia
to the east. It emerged on 1 January 1993 as a result of a peaceful dissolution of
Czechoslovakia
and its division into the
Czech
Republic and Slovakia. The Czech Republic includes the historical territories of Bohemia, Moravia, and Czech Silesia. It covers an area of has an area of 78,860 sq km and has a population of 10,538,275 (2014), of whom nearly 95% percent are
Czechs
and Moravians, 1.4%
Slovaks
, and close to 3% other nationalities. Official figures (2010) indicate that 126,521
Ukrainians
live in the Czech Republic, although the actual number is probably higher. The capital is
Prague
(2011 pop 1,262,106). (For the history of
Ukrainians
in the Czech lands and of Ukrainian-Czech relations, see
Bohemia
.)
As a result of a considerable influx of Ukrainian immigrants in the 2000s, several Ukrainian cultural and community organizations were established in the
Czech
Republic.
Ukrainians
are organized in the Ukrainian Initiative in the Czech Republic, the Berehynia Association of Ukrainian Work Migrants in the Czech Republic, Association of
Ukrainians
and Friends of Ukraine, the
Union of Ukrainian Women
in the Czech Republic, and others. Most of these Ukrainian organizations are concentrated in
Prague
; other smaller centres of the Ukrainian community life include Chomutov, Plze?, Brno.
[This article was updated in 2015.]