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 Czech RepublicMore Facts & FiguresNational name: Ceska Republika
Current government officials
Language:
Czech
Ethnicity/race:
Czech 90.4%, Moravian 3.7%, Slovak 1.9%, other
4% (2001)
National Holiday:
Czech Founding Day, October 28
Religions:
Roman Catholic 27%, Protestant 2%,
unaffiliated 59% (2001) Literacy rate: 99% (2003 est.) Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2007
est.): $249 billion; per capita $24,400. Real growth rate:
5.7%. Inflation: 2.6%. Unemployment: 6.6%. Arable
land: 38.8%. Agriculture: wheat, potatoes, sugar beets,
hops, fruit; pigs, poultry. Labor force: 5.31 million;
agriculture 4.1%, industry 37.6%, services 58.3% (2003 est.).
Industries: metallurgy, machinery and equipment, motor vehicles,
glass, armaments. Natural resources: hard coal, soft coal,
kaolin, clay, graphite, timber. Exports: $113 billion f.o.b.
(2007 est.): machinery and transport equipment 52%, chemicals 5%,
raw materials and fuel 9% (2003). Imports: $109.8 billion
f.o.b. (2007 est.): machinery and transport equipment 46%, raw
materials and fuels 15%, chemicals 10% (2003). Major trading
partners: Germany, Slovakia, Austria, Poland, UK, France, Italy,
Netherlands, China, Russia (2004). Communications: Telephones: main lines
in use: 3,217,300 (2005); mobile cellular: 12.15 million (2006).
Radio broadcast stations: AM 31, FM 304, shortwave 17 (2000).
Television broadcast stations: 150 (plus 1,434 repeaters)
(2000). Internet hosts: 1.7 million (2007). Internet
users: 3.5 million (2006). Transportation: Railways: total: 9,597
km km (2006). Highways: total: 127,865 km; paved: 127,865 km
(including 633 km of expressways); unpaved: 0 km (2006).
Waterways: 664 km (on Elbe, Vltava, and Oder rivers) (2004).
Ports and harbors: Decin, Prague, Usti nad Labem.
Airports: 122 (2007). International disputes: in 2006,
Austrian public protests for the Czech Republic to close the Temelin
nuclear power plant resulted in an Austrian parliamentary motion
threatening international legal action.
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