Welcome to the Czech Republic
Reducing the rich history of the lands of the Czech Republic is always tricky... but the Charles University, the first Middle European university was founded in Prague already in 1348, and tradition of Czech Technical University education goes back to the beginning of the 18th century... .
Political system
The Czech Republic is a parliamentary democracy with the President as the head of the State. The Parliament consists of two chambers, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Since the June 2002 elections the Czech Republic has a coalition Government (Social Democratic Party, Christian Democratic Union, Union of Freedom).
Basic indicators
The CR has a 78,864 km sq. area, 10,2 mio. population, the GDP per capita in PPS amounted to 13,200 € (Eurostat 2001). The life expectancy is 71,8 and 78,6 for males and females, respectively (WHO 2001). The CR has the 33rd highest Human Development Index among the 173 states, for which this measure was estimated by UN (Human Development Report 2002). Click here for more details on the indicators.
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