🇨🇿 Don't Call it Czech Republic.* 🇨🇿

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[XENOXTA]

The Federal Republic of Germany?
You mean FROG?
I’m now calling it FROG.

[samuellawrencesbookclub]

Damn it, I only just stopped calling it Czechoslovakia, now I have to remember another new name.

[LeeKnows_Left_Toe]

If you call Czech Republic Czechia infront of a czech person, their soul will leave through their eyes💀

[fieryr]

Time to call all the countries by formal names so I'm excused to still call it "Czech Republic"

[mr.mysteriousspyman]

It is time to start calling the Dominican Republic "Dominica".

[tony-lkhv]

As a Czech person, we call it "Czech Republic". The term for "Czechia" is scarecly used in our language and most people just use the official name. We're all used to it.

[erseshe]

Me on my way to the Federal Republic of Germany:

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As a Czech Republican I can confirm this.

[TheManWithTheFlan]

Me who just woke up from a two hundred year coma wondering where the fuck the Kingdom of Bohemia went:

[rustyshackleford]

This video acts like "Czechia" has always been the recommended short name for the country, but this is a relatively recent recommendation by the Czech government in 2016 to start referring to the country's official short name as "Czechia". Prior to this, the only name that was used was Czech Republic, which is why many people still call it the Czech Republic.

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As a Czech I honestly call it the Czech Republic in english conversation. Since I would use the czech equivalent of Czechia only very very rarely, it does not make sense to me to call it Czechia in english.

[midlous]

As a Czech, I can say we hate when our country is called Czechia we prefer the Czech Republic.

[mymo_in_Bb]

It's jarring how this foreigner is so confidently incorrect. "The Czech Republic" is still the preferred way to refer to the country over here, and when the common name was changed to "Czechia, " there was a lot of resistance against it. Most people still like to refer to it by its official name. And you especially shouldn't call something "strange" because you saw it in an official document somewhere. What's strange is determined by what the people actually use.
It's like saying that calling me my name is strange, because it's not the name I have in my birth certificate.

[calebrumsey]

Czech Republic just rolls off the tongue nicer

[paindude]

Mfs who call it by it's historical name, Bohemia: 🍷🗿

[michalatlas]

As someone from Czechia I have to partly deny this, yes the younglings use Czechia, including me, however most older people (above 40/50 so a lot of people) quite hate the name and don't even realize that it's official, so you'll hear The Czech Republic or Republic from them far more and they consider it the one correct name. But eventually it will be the case. Kinda like Reichstag and Bundestag.

[SpydderEdits]

As a United States of American i can agree

Edit: mom I’m famous

[eliyaskiya]

"You don't travel to the Federal Republic of Germany. For good reason"

lmao

[magnusbruce]

I used to work with someone from there. She always referred to the country as "Czech" not "Czechia".

When I went to Prague in about 1999, "Czech Republic" was the informal name. Calling it Czechia is a relatively recent thing which I still sometimes struggle with.

[jakubzeman]

The Czechia name has only been official since 2017 and even a lot of Czech people still use the name Czech Republic (when speaking English). Even in Czech, the literal translation ("Česko") only refers to one of the three main regions of the country (Bohemia, plus there is Moravia and Silesia), so even in our native language to be correct we often say Česká republika (the Czech Republic). Plus there is this whole debate about Czechia being easily confusable with Chechnya and it just sounding weird in general 😅. At the same time sometimes a country IS reffered to by its system of government (the United Kingdom, The United States of America), so even as a native I think it's perfectly acceptable to use the name Czech Republic.