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Capital
Prague, on the Vltava river.
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Parliament
The Chamber of Deputies (200 members) and the Senate (81 members).
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President
Elected directly by the citizens since 2013.
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Currency
The Czech koruna (CZK).
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Independence of the Czech Republic
1 January 1993, after the division of Czechoslovakia.
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Czechoslovakia founded
28 October 1918.
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Velvet Revolution
17 November 1989.
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NATO membership
1999.
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EU membership
1 May 2004.
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Schengen area
Joined in 2007.
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First president of the Czech Republic
Václav Havel.
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Czech Statehood Day
28 September, linked to Saint Wenceslas.
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Liberation Day
8 May.
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Regions
Thirteen regions and the capital city of Prague.
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Highest mountain
Sněžka, about 1603 metres, in the Krkonoše.
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Longest river
The Vltava, which joins the Elbe at Mělník.
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Elbe
Flows from the Krkonoše through Bohemia into Germany and the North Sea.
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National parks
Šumava, Krkonoše, Podyjí and České Švýcarsko.
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Second largest city
Brno, in South Moravia.
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Pravčická brána
The largest natural sandstone arch in Europe, in České Švýcarsko.
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Pilsner beer
First brewed in Plzeň in 1842.
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Antonín Dvořák
Composer of the Symphony No. 9 'From the New World'.
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Bedřich Smetana
Composer of Má vlast and The Bartered Bride.
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Leoš Janáček
Moravian composer of Jenůfa and the Sinfonietta.
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Alphonse Mucha
Art Nouveau artist and painter of the Slav Epic.
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Gregor Mendel
Brno friar who discovered the rules of heredity using peas.
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Jaroslav Heyrovský
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959 for polarography.
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Jaroslav Seifert
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1984.
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Emil Zátopek
Won the 5000 m, 10000 m and marathon at the 1952 Olympic Games.
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Czech Christmas dinner
Fried carp with potato salad.

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