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Area: 78,866 sq km
Population: 10.38m
Capital City: Prague
People: Czech (81.2%); Moravian (13.2%); Slovak (3.1%); Polish (0.6%); German (0.5%); Roma (0.3%), Others (1.1%)
Languages: Czech
Religion(s): Roman Catholic 39.2%; Protestant 4.6%; Orthodox 3%; non-religious 39.8%, other 13.4%.
Currency: Czech Crown (CZK)
Major political parties: Civic Democratic Party (ODS); Czech Social Democrat Party (CSSD; Christian Democratic Union/Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU/CSL), Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM), Green Party (SZ).
Government: Parliamentary Democracy led by a coalition of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), the Christian Democrats / People’s Party and the Green Party.
Head of State: Vaclav Klaus (since 2003, re-elected for second and final term in 2008)
Prime Minister: Mirek Topolanek (since January 2007)
Foreign Minister: Karel Schwarzenberg (since January 2007)

Membership of international groupings/ organisations: Member of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO); European Union (EU); International Monetary Fund (IMF); Interpol; Organisation for Co-operation and Security in Europe (OSCE); Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); United Nations (UN); United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO); Western European Union (WEU) (associate)

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