2026-07-10 12:27 UTC
4/ Historically Czechia 🇨🇿 was sometimes referred to as Bohemia, but in fact Bohemia is just one of three regions of the country. The other large region is Moravia, and there is a smaller Czech Silesia region.
Bohemia is the drainage basin of the Elbe river (flowing to the North Sea), Moravia the Danube (Black Sea), the Czech Silesia the Oder (Baltic).
https://waterwaymap.org/#map=6.94/50.101/14.778
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@opencage@en.osm.town 2026-07-10 12:27
5/ Czechia 🇨🇿 is a landlocked country, so it may surprise you to know the country has an official port territory in Hamburg, Germany 🇩🇪 Following WWI Czechoslovakia got a 99-year lease on a lot called Moldauhafen giving it sea access via the Elbe rivers. The Czech Republic inherited the rights. The lease expires in 2028. There's currently a negotiation to swap the now-derelict, bridge-blocked plots for a more usable site near a real deepwater terminal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldauhafen #geoweirdness