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1 Czech Republic

2 Location A landlocked country in Central – Europe. The country is bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the north. The Czech Republic includes the historical territories of Bohemia and Moravia, as well as a small part of Silesia.

3 The capital city Its capital and largest city, with 1.3 million inhabitants, is Prague.

4 Geography  The Czech landscape is exceedingly varied. Bohemia, to the west, consists of a basin drained by the Elbe (Czech: Labe) and the Vltava (or Moldau) rivers, surrounded by mostly low mountains, such as the Krkonoše range of the Sudetes. The highest point in the country, Sněžka at 1,602 m, is located here. Water from the landlocked Czech Republic flows to three different seas: the North Sea, Baltic Sea and Black Sea. Sněžka mountain

5 Phytogeographic  The Czech Republic belongs to the Central European province of the Circumboreal Region, within the Boreal Kingdom. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, the territory of the Czech Republic can be subdivided into four ecoregions: the Central European mixed forests, Pannonian mixed forests, Western European broadleaf forests and Carpathian montane conifer forests.

6 National parks  There are four national parks in the Czech Republic. 1.The oldest is Krkonoše National Park (Biosphere Reserve), 2. Šumava National Park (Biosphere Reserve), 3.Podyjí National Park, 4.Bohemian Switzerland.

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