Czechs
| 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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