what region is czech republic in?
Central Europe
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 The Czech Republic is a relatively safe country : Prague , with the highest crime rate in the country , still ranks as one of the safest capitals in the European Union . Considering the number of E category licenses issued , there are about 200 @,@ 000 people who could potentially carry a firearm ; however , it is not clear how many regularly do so . 

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 In 2005 and 2007 , Czech was spoken by about 10 million residents of the Czech Republic . A Eurobarometer survey conducted from January to March 2012 found that the first language of 98 percent of Czech citizens was Czech , the third @-@ highest in the European Union ( behind Greece and Hungary ) . 

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 Czech , the official language of the Czech Republic ( a member of the European Union since 2004 ) , is one of the EU 's official languages and the 2012 Eurobarometer survey found that Czech was the foreign language most often used in Slovakia . Economist Jonathan van Parys collected data on language knowledge in Europe for the 2012 European Day of Languages . The five countries with the greatest use of Czech were the Czech Republic ( 98 @.@ 77 percent ) , Slovakia ( 24 @.@ 86 percent ) , Portugal ( 1 @.@ 93 percent ) , Poland ( 0 @.@ 98 percent ) and Germany ( 0 @.@ 47 percent ) . 

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 The Republic of German Austria was created following the defeat of the Austro @-@ Hungarian Empire in the First World War and claimed areas with a predominantly German @-@ speaking population within the bounds of the former empire . In addition to the current area of the Republic of Austria , these included parts of South Tyrol and the town of Tarvisio , both now in Italy ; southern Carinthia and southern Styria , now in Slovenia ; and Sudetenland proper and German Bohemia ( later also part of Sudetenland ) , now in the Czech Republic . 
