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I lived here before and after the official name change. Everyone I know still calls it "Czech Republic" - "Czechia" feels weird and unnatural to me. Additional
by smcl 6y ago
I lived here before and after the official name change. Everyone I know still calls it "Czech Republic" - "Czechia" feels weird and unnatural to me.
Additionally it sounds quite close to "Čechy" - what in English we call "Bohemia" - which refers only to the western half of the country (see [1]). So it reminds me a little bit of when people call the UK "England" - so as a Scot living in Moravia I sympathise a little with some locals who feel a bit irked by it :-)
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic#/media/File:Czech_Rep._-_Bohemia,_Moravia_and_Silesia_III_(en).png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic#/media/File:Cze...