Czechia is the official short name of the Czech republic

Dear  Jot form Team

 

We would like to draw your attention to the fact that CZECHIA has become the

official geographic (short) name of the Czech Republic and included in the

United Nations’ UNGEGN World Geographic Names database on July 5, 2016

 

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/geonames/

 

https://unterm.un.org/UNTERM/Display/Record/UNHQ/NA/4275087d-4018-4082-899d-95f37efeda65

 

 

For this reason, we kindly ask you for the inclusion of the name Czechia in your vocabulary.

 

 

 

Thank you

 

On behalf of Civic initiative Česko / Czechia:

 

Vladimír Baar, geographer, Ostrava, Czechia

Libuše Čižmárová, linguist and translator, Brno, Czechia

Jiří Felix, linguist, Prague, Czechia

Vladimír Filip, technical consultant, Prague, Czechia

Vladimír Hirsch, composer and physician, Prague, Czechia

Eva Horová, linguist and translator, Brno, Czechia

Leoš Jeleček, historical geographer, Prague, Czechia

Marja Kilastemi, art photographer, Luxembourg

Karel Kopřiva, Brno, Czechia

Pavel Krejčí, linguist and translator, Brno, Czechia

Zdeněk Kukal, geographer, travel agency owner, Prague, Czechia

Vít Novotný, political scientist, Bruxelles, Belgium

Petr Pavlínek, geographer, Prague, Czechia / Omaha, USA

Pavel Procházka, journalist, editor in chief, Prague, Czechia

Martina Sanollová, teacher and translator, Břeclav, Czechia

Petr Schnur, historian, sociologist and publicist, Hannover, Germany

Václav Šulista, chemist, pharmaceutical manager, Basel, Switzerland

Barbora Těšíková, pedagogue, Prague, Czechia

Zdeněk Thoma, publicist and photographer, Prague, Czechia

David Vávra, architect and actor, Prague, Czechia

Martin Wichterle, industrialist and innovator, Prague, Czechia

 

 

Hello,

Thank you for informing us about update. Congratulations with the new name of the Czech Republic.

I am informing our developer team so we could update our necessary fields according to this information.

Thank you very much again.

Regards.