Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a state in Central Europe. It occupies an area of 78 864 sq km and has about 10.33 million inhabitants.
     Our state has varied landscape. Bohemia is surrounded by a ring of mountains - the Šumava range, the Czech Forest, the Ore Mountains, the Jizerské Mountains, the Giant Mountains and the Eagle Mountains. The Moravian Plain is protected on the West by the Bohemian-Moravian Highland, and in the North by the wooded mountains ranges of Jeseníky and Beskydy. Fertile lowlands can be found in the valleys of big rivers - the Vltava, the Elbe (flowing into the North Sea), the Oder (flowing into the Baltic Sea), and Morava (flowing into the Danube and thence into the Black Sea). The climate is mostly continental, the warmest are beiing in South Moravia.
     The capital city is Prague, the seat of the President, government and parliament and also the political, cultural and economic centre of the country. It spreads out on both banks of the river Vltava in the centre of Bohemia. It covers an area of 1.2 million inhabitants. The whole city consists of 10 administrative districts.
     The Czech Republic is a sovereign, united and democratic state. Its government is devided into three branches - the legislative, represented by  the Parliament, the executive, represented mainly by the President and the government, and the judical, represented by courts at various levels.
     School attendance in the Czech Republic is compulsory from age 6 to 15. Most children attend state school, but there are newly established private and church schools. Education at state  school up to 18 is free of charge. Private and church school charge school fees. All schools are coeducational. Children in our school system do not wear uniforms.

ŠUMPERK - beautiful town in the valley of Jeseníky

The town hall of our town