Czechia - who lives in Czechia?
Czech and Slovak people make up most of the population of Czechia. Others have gone to live elsewhere in Poland, Ukraine, Romania and in larger groups to the USA and Canada. There are small groups in lots of other places too - including England. Slovak people speak Slovak, which is very similar to Czech.
Other groups living in the Czech Republic include Roma (Gypsies) and they speak their own Roma language as well as Czech, or a dialect of Czech or Slovak. Some Poles also live in Czechia, as well as some German people. Some people live in Czechia because they moved there after the Second World War to benefit from the aid programmes the country was receiving. Some of these people came from elsewhere in Europe, some from Africa and some from Cuba in South America.
Czechia is now also becoming home to many new groups of people including Vietnamese people, Greeks, some Russians, Western Europeans and others from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America. Many of these people went originally to teach English in Czechia and have stayed on. Others went there after 1989, when Communist rule ended, to invest in the new country.
