Map of Czechia

Czechia is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 49.8° N, 15.5° E. Czechia is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 4 neighbours — Austria, Germany, Poland and Slovakia — with no coastline of its own. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Czechia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Czechia is surrounded by the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Czechia covers about 78,865 km² (30,450 sq mi). That makes it the 114th-largest country in the world by area and the 20th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 25 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 10,882,341, the 87th-largest in the world and the 12th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 1.5% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Czechia has an average population density of about 138 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 12th by population and 20th by area.

The seat of government is Prague, and the official currency is the Czech koruna (CZK, Kč), and the main official languages are Czech and Slovak. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Czechia carries the ISO country codes CZ and CZE, dials on the international calling code +420 and uses the .cz internet domain.

Czechia shares its land borders with 4 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Germany (capital Berlin, about 83,491,249 people), Poland (capital Warsaw, about 37,392,000 people), Austria (capital Vienna, about 9,200,931 people) and Slovakia (capital Bratislava, about 5,413,813 people).

By area, Czechia is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 49.8° N, 15.5° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing Czechia within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Prague. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Czechia lies about 5,522 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Czechia keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Czech koruna (CZK, Kč).

The official languages are Czech and Slovak, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +420 and websites commonly use the .cz internet domain.

In short, Czechia is a landlocked country in Europe, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Prague. Czechia has a population of about 10,882,341 and covers around 78,865 km² (30,450 sq mi), ranking it 87th in the world by population and 114th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Czechia.

The flag of Czechia is composed of two equal horizontal bands of white and red, with a blue isosceles triangle superimposed on the hoist side of the field. The triangle has its base on the hoist end and spans about two-fifth the width of the field.

The flag of Czechia is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.