: Ladies and gentlemen, please feel free to ignore the post above exhorting the use of "Czechia". It's been a matter of some minor debate nationally that there is no single-word name for our country (yes, I'm Czech) in common use (not even in our own language, as "Česko" (basically Czech for "Czechia"), the natural candidate, is ambiguous in that it has historically referred mostly to the region of Bohemia, and not the entirety of present-day Czech Republic; personally I'm unsure whether Bohemia or the whole country is meant whenever it's used). For that reason, some PR afficionados and tourism industry professionals formed a drive to determine and endorse a single-word official name for the Czech Republic. Their efforts have gone largely ignored by the bulk of the population, however, and no one I know actually uses "Czechia". (Personally, I find the word ridiculous and wouldn't use it if they paid me to.) If anyone's interested, the word we use to refer to our country in common speech is "Čechy", which however is indistinguishable from our word for Bohemia, and therefore has to be interpreted from context (also, some inhabitants of Moravia and Silesia, the other two major regions of the country apart from Bohemia, are sometimes grouchy about the use of this word for the whole country, feeling "left out" due to the fact that the word can also be interpreted to mean Bohemia only... hence, the drive to find a different single-word designator).