what is the new name of the czech republic
Name of the Czech Republic In 2013, Czech president Miloš Zeman recommended the wider official use of Czechia,[33] and on 14 April 2016, the government agreed to make Czechia the official short name. The new name was approved by the Czech cabinet on 2 May 2016[34] and was published in the United Nations UNTERM and UNGEGN country name databases on 5 July 2016.[35] In September 2016, the British Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN) recommended the use of Czechia and added it as the sole form of the country name to their list of country names.[36] On 26 September 2016, the International Organization for Standardization included the short name Czechia in the official ISO 3166 country codes list.[37][38] Geographic and geolocation resources that have adopted Czechia include Google Maps (as of 18 January 2017) and Google Earth,[39] the Common Locale Data Repository[40] and the 2017 Oxford Atlas of the World. [41] Apple Inc. began using Czechia in system settings with iOS 11.