aid - recipient:$2.4 billion in available EU structural adjustment and cohesion
funds (2004–06)
Currency (code):
Czech koruna (CZK)
Currency code:
CZK
Exchange rates:
koruny per US dollar - 25.7 (2004), 28.209 (2003), 32.739 (2002),
38.035 (2001), 38.598 (2000)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Czech Republic
Telephones - main lines in use:
3.626 million (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
9,708,700 (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: privatization and modernization of the Czech
telecommunication system got a late start but is advancing steadily;
growth in the use of mobile cellular telephones is particularly
vigorous
domestic: 86% of exchanges now digital; existing copper subscriber
systems now being enhanced with Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
(ADSL) equipment to accommodate Internet and other digital signals;
trunk systems include fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay
international: country code - 420; satellite earth stations - 2
Intersputnik (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions), 1 Intelsat, 1
Eutelsat, 1 Inmarsat, 1 Globalstar
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 31, FM 304, shortwave 17 (2000)
Radios:
3,159,134 (December 2000)
Television broadcast stations:
150 (plus 1,434 repeaters) (2000)
Televisions:
3,405,834 (December 2000)
Internet country code:
.cz
Internet hosts:
295,677 (2004)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
more than 300 (2000)
Internet users:
2.7 million (2003)
Transportation Czech Republic
Railways:
total: 9,543 km
standard gauge: 9,421 km 1.435-m gauge (2,893 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 122 km 0.760-m gauge (23 km electrified) (2004)
Highways:
total: 127,204 km
paved: 127,204 km (including 518 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (2002)
Waterways:
664 km (on Elbe, Vltava, and Oder rivers) (2004)
Pipelines:
gas 7,020 km; oil 547 km; refined products 94 km (2004)
Ports and harbors:
Decin, Prague, Usti nad Labem
Merchant marine:
registered in other countries: 3
Airports:
120 (2004 est.)
Airports - with paved runways: total: 44 over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 9 1,524 to 2,437 m: 14 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 17 (2004 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 76 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 27 under 914 m: 48 (2004 est.)
Heliports: 2 (2004 est.)
Military Czech Republic
Military branches:
Army of the Czech Republic (ACR): Joint Forces Command, Support and
Training Forces Command (2005)
Military service age and obligation: 18–50 years of age for voluntary military service; military service transformed into a fully professional, all-volunteer force no longer dependent on conscription beginning in January 2004 (2005)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18–49: 2,414,728 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18–49: 1,996,631 (2005 est.)
Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 66,583 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$2.17 billion (2004)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
2.02% (2004)
Transnational Issues Czech Republic
Disputes - international:
in February 2005, the ICJ refused to rule on the restitution of
Liechtenstein's land and property assets in the Czech Republic
confiscated in 1945 as German property; individual Sudeten Germans
seek restitution for property confiscated in connection with their
expulsion after World War II
Illicit drugs:
transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and minor transit
point for Latin American cocaine to Western Europe; producer of
synthetic drugs for local and regional markets; susceptible to money
laundering related to
