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Czechs

Czechs
Češi
Total population
c.10–12 million
Regions with significant populations
 Czech Republic  
6,732,104
9 246 784
Significant diasporic populations in:
 United States 1,462,000
 Canada 94,805
 Germany 60,000
 Argentina 45,000
 United Kingdom 45,000
 Austria 40,324
 Italy 40,000
 France 38,000
 Slovakia 30,367
 Australia 21,196
  Switzerland 20,000
 Ukraine 11,000
 Croatia 9,641 (2011)
 Chile 8,600
 Israel 8,000
 Sweden 7,175 (2001)
 Ireland 5,451
 Spain 5,622 (2006)
 Russia 5,000–6,000
 Brazil 5,000
 Netherlands 3,500
 Romania 3,339 (2002)
 Poland 3,000
 South Africa 2,300
 Mexico 2,000
 Serbia 1,824 (2011)
 Colombia 1,200
 Kazakhstan 1,000
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 600–1,000
Languages
Czech and its Moravian dialects
Religion
Christianity:
Roman Catholic, Hussite, Lutheran
Irreligion
Related ethnic groups
Austrians, Germans, Poles, Silesians, Slovaks, Sorbs, other West Slavs

The Czechs or the Czech people (Czech: Češi, pronounced [ˈtʃɛʃɪ]; singular masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka) are a nation and an ethnic group native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common Czech ancestry, culture, history and are native speakers of Czech, a West Slavic language.

Czechs descend from diverse peoples of West Slavic, Celtic and Germanic origin. Ethnic Czechs were called Bohemians in English until the early 20th century, referring to the late Iron Age tribe of Celtic Boii and the land Bohemia. During the Migration Period, West Slavic tribes of Bohemians settled in the area, "assimilated the remaining Celtic and Germanic populations", and formed an independent principality in the 9th century in form of Duchy of Bohemia and later Kingdom of Bohemia, the predecessors of the modern republic.

Czech people and their descendants live in the Czech Republic, the United States, Canada, Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany, Slovakia, Australia, Argentina, Austria and Switzerland among others.


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