<P> Based on this standardization, the Czech Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of Education, Youth and Sports recommended the use of the name Czechia . Other names suggested in the 1990s included Czechomoravia or Czechlands . However, by 2000 a short name had still not been fully adopted by the Czech authorities . At that time, the Second Secretary, Press and Politics at the British Embassy in Prague, Giles Portman, showed a willingness to accept the name Czechia . Portman said in 2000, "Czechs still use the name Česká republika rather than Česko, and the English equivalent, the Czech Republic, rather than Czechia . Were that pattern to change, we would have no problem at all with adapting accordingly . But we feel that the initiative for that change must come from the Czech side and not from us ." </P> <P> In 2013, Czech president Miloš Zeman recommended the wider official use of Czechia, 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 . In November 2016 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs presented recommendations on how to use the short name "Česko / Czechia" in international contexts . On 1 June 2017, the geography department of the Faculty of Sciences of Charles University in Prague organised a special conference to assess the progress of the name's proliferation . </P> <P> The new short name was published in the United Nations UNTERM and UNGEGN country name databases on 5 July 2016 . 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 . On 26 September 2016, the International Organization for Standardization included the short name Czechia in the official ISO 3166 country codes list . The United States Board on Geographic Names also approved usage in 2017 . Google switched to Czechia on Google Maps and Android country settings in January, 2017 . The US Department of State and the CIA The World Factbook have adopted Czechia . </P> <P> The equivalent of the Czech short form "Česko" is in routine use by most other languages . In a few cases (for example Polish Czechy, Croatian Češka and Serbian Чешка / Češka) this form had historically been used for Bohemia . Other languages adopted new short - forms such as تشيكيا (Tšīk (i) yā) in Arabic . In most cases, the new form has more or less completely replaced the formal name for most usages . However, usage in Spanish and French remains mixed, with the forms Chequia and Tchéquie being used alongside the longer, formal name . </P>

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