We write newspaper articles, use Czechia in our academic publications and in the classes we teach and talk to key persons that have a chance to influence whether the Czech Republic or Czechia will be used in their organizations; we organize public lectures, etc.
We are convinced that Czechia will first win abroad and only then in Czechia. Concerning many Czechs still not using Czechia, the biggest problem is a complete lack of leadership from the Czech government. After , the Czech government did almost nothing to promote Czechia. It seems that people in the government were naively thinking Czechia would spread by itself without having to use it in the first place.
As a matter of fact, after the elections, the new government led by Mr. Athletes keep using Czech Republic or Czech or CR on their jerseys and during international sporting events.
They claim they have been waiting for a coordinated shift to the usage of Czechia organized by the government. They also said that it would cost a lot of money, which is not true. It is unclear why the government has not promoted the usage of Czechia in sports, because almost no other countries in the world use formal names in that area.
Of course, we disapprove of this wait-and-see approach. By not using it at all, the government then claims that the name did not catch up abroad. Do you think Czechia will eventually become the most common way to name the country? How much time do you think it might take? Of course, Czechia will become the most common way to name the country in the future because it is much more practical than the Czech Republic.
We would have given up a long time ago if we were not convinced that Czechia would eventually prevail. We love this country and that is why we are doing it since the Czech state has almost completely failed in this regard.
The length of time will depend on whether and when the Czech government will change its attitude. What more can be done to promote its use among the Czech population?
Start using it wherever other countries use their short names. Start using Czechia in an international sporting competition, international exhibitions, conferences, Czech English-speaking media, etc. Start teaching Czechia at schools. English teachers here in Czechia keep teaching their students that Czechia is a wrong word and are marking it as a mistake when students use it.
Fortunately, young Czechs are starting to use Czechia despite obstacles they face. They see it on their phones in country settings, on Google Maps, Google Earth, Apple maps, TomTom navigation, international coronavirus statistics and maps, etc. Czechs also see Czechia on the web sites and publications of the United Nations and its institutions, on the web sites of the European Union and all its new publications and statistical data published since the end of Eventually many Czechs will realize that Czechia makes a lot of sense in a similar way Austria, Slovakia, Croatia, Indonesia, Australia and other short country names do.
Just wait and see. For more information about Civic Initiative Czechia and their fight for the correct short country name, feel free to check out their website or follow them on social media!
Thanks a lot, Jules for this great summary, Prof. Pavlinek is right! On Eurovision its called Czechia but on my insurance documents it was still called Czech Republic just like they had Macedonia instead of North Macedonia.
Thank you! Completely agree with Petr. Unfortunately, and despite the thorough and detailed report, the name Czechia remains most unpopular amongst us expats. The name itself will be very often confused with Chechnya and will always lack identity. Understanding the Czech Republic vs. Czechia debate Czechia. Many thanks for this article. The country name issue has to be reminded more often.
We are not any Plech Republic. The short geographic name of a country cannot be substituted by its formal political name, which is transient and ignores the historic continuity of a given state territory because it is limited only to the existing state form.
While the Czech Republic has only existed since , the Czech state has existed in various forms and under different political names for more than one thousand years. As such, the political name can never fully replace a permanent geographic name that does not change in response to changing state forms in a particular territory.
The need for a proper short name is demonstrated by the fact that the Czech Republic is often erroneously shortened to Czech, Czech rep. Republic CZ or Czecho. In many cases, foreigners continue to use the name Czechoslovakia, although the country has not existed since Thank you for a wonderful interview! The arguments in support of Czechia are very logical and convincing.
I have been using exclusively Czechia for in English in all my publication and in all my conversations about 15 years. I have used Czechia during my lectures in the United States and in Britain without any problem. Bohemia and Czechia were synonyms, Czechs were called Bohemians and the Czech language was known as the Bohemian language. Even the whole Czechoslovakia was initially supposed to be called Bohemia see Masaryk, T. Independent Bohemia.
Yes, but this only applied to English as you state correctly more than a century ago but it has never been the case in Czech. Thank you — despite being very interested in international affairs, I admit to having only just heard for the first time, here in the UK, the title Czechia.
Thank you for your message. Yes, you are right, the version here is the informal way of asking a name. If you want the formal one, the verb "jmenovat se" to be named would have to change to:.
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