Europe · The modern states
Czech Republic
1993–present
The "Velvet Divorce" split Czechoslovakia peacefully into two sovereign states on 1 January 1993. Both joined NATO (Czechia 1999, Slovakia 2004) and the EU (2004); Slovakia adopted the euro (2009), while Czechia retains the koruna.
- Existed
- 1993–present
- Shown on the map
- 1992–2024
- Peak area
- 80k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
The "Velvet Divorce" split Czechoslovakia peacefully into two sovereign states on 1 January 1993. Both joined NATO (Czechia 1999, Slovakia 2004) and the EU (2004); Slovakia adopted the euro (2009), while Czechia retains the koruna. Present status (Sept 2026): parliamentary republic; President Petr Pavel (since 2023); Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO), whose party won the 3–4 October 2025 election with about 34.5% (80 of 200 seats) and who was sworn in on 9 December 2025 at the head of a coalition with the far-right SPD and the Motorists, signalling a more Eurosceptic, Ukraine-sceptic turn checked by the pro-Western President Pavel.
Common questions
- What was the Czech Republic?
- The "Velvet Divorce" split Czechoslovakia peacefully into two sovereign states on 1 January 1993. Both joined NATO (Czechia 1999, Slovakia 2004) and the EU (2004); Slovakia adopted the euro (2009), while Czechia retains the koruna.
- When did the Czech Republic exist?
- The Czech Republic existed 1993–present. On this map it is drawn 1992–2024.
- How large was the Czech Republic?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Czech Republic covered about 80,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each state as the primary basis, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the ICTY and the 2004 Wiesel Commission for genocide and atrocity figures, and current news reporting (Reuters, AP, BBC, and others) for 2025–2026 political developments, which should be verified against live sources. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Czech Republic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic
This entry was last updated .
This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made
Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.
Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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