---
title: "English name of the Czech Republic (Czhehia) – mission finally possible?"
date: 2025-03-14
description: "The article draws attention to the problem of the introduction and use of the English version of the name of the Czech state – Czechia. It focuses on the events of the last five or six years, ie. from the oﬃcial introduction of Czechia in the main UN terminology databases (UNGEGN, UNTERM) in 2016."
categories:
  - name: "Issue 1-2 (2022)"
    url: "https://bgrech.eu/issue-1-2-2022.md"
tags:
  - name: "Pavel Krejčí"
    url: "https://bgrech.eu/tags/pavel-krejci-en.md"
---

# English name of the Czech Republic (Czhehia) – mission finally possible?

The article draws attention to the problem of the introduction and use of the English version of the name of the Czech state – Czechia. It focuses on the events of the last five or six years, ie. from the oﬃcial introduction of Czechia in the main UN terminology databases (UNGEGN, UNTERM) in 2016.

 **Key words**: Czechia; Česko, romonyms, horonyms.


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**Pages:** 64-68

