<item><hi format=bold>International disputes:</hi> Liechtenstein claims l,606 square miles of Czech territory confiscated from its royal family in 1918; Sudeten German claims for restitution of property confiscated in connection with their expulsion after World War II versus the Czech Republic claims that restitution does not proceed before February 1948 when the Communists seized power; unresolved property issues with Slovakia over redistribution of property of the former Czechoslovak federal government
<item><hi format=bold>Terrain:</hi> two main regions: Bohemia in the west, consisting of rolling plains, hills, and plateaus surrounded by low mountains; and Moravia in the east, consisting of very hilly country
<item><hi format=bold>Natural resources:</hi> hard coal, soft coal, kaolin, clay, graphite
<item><hi format=bold>Land use:</hi>
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<item>• <hi format=ital>arable land:</hi> NA%
<item>• <hi format=ital>permanent crops:</hi> NA%
<item>• <hi format=ital>meadows and pastures:</hi> NA%
<item>• <hi format=ital>forest and woodland:</hi> NA%
<item>• <hi format=ital>other:</hi> NA%
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<item><hi format=bold>Irrigated land:</hi> NA sq km
<item><hi format=bold>Environment:</hi>
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<item>• <hi format=ital>current issues:</hi> air and water pollution in areas of northwest Bohemia centered around Zeplica and in northern Moravia around Ostrava presents health hazards; acid rain damaging forests
<item>• <hi format=ital>natural hazards:</hi> NA
<item>• <hi format=ital>international agreements:</hi> party to—Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands; signed, but not ratified—Antarctic-Environmental Protocol
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<item><hi format=bold>Note:</hi> landlocked; strategically located astride some of oldest and most significant land routes in Europe; Moravian Gate is a traditional military corridor between the North European Plain and the Danube in central Europe