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- Czech Republic or Ceska Republika
- area 78,864 sq km/30,461 sq mi
- Capital: Prague
- Towns and cities Brno, Ostrava, Olomouc,
- Liberec, Plzen, Usti nad Labem, Hradec
- Kralove. Physical: mountainous; rivers:
- Morava, Labe (Elbe), Vltava (Moldau)
- Environment: one of the most polluted areas
- of Europe; up to twenty times the permissible
- level of sulfur dioxide is released over
- Prague, where 75% of the drinking water fails
- to meet the country's health standards.
- Population (1993) 10,330,000 (with German and
- other minorities); growth rate 0.4% p.a.
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- Life expectancy: men 69, women 79
- Language: Czech (official).
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