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Originally Posted by 4X4
Well, upon researching it, on maps it's called Slovakia, but when I wikipedia'd it, it says that it's actually called Slovak Republic, or Slovakia for short. I guess I shouldn't believe everything I read on maps? Or maybe not everything I read on Wikipedia?
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Based on my limited research, Slovakia is a perfectly acceptable way to refer to the Slovak Republic in English. Likewise, Czechia is a perfectly acceptable way to refer to the Czech Republic in English.
For whatever reason, when Czechoslovakia split up, we adopted one form to refer to one of the new nations and the other form for the other.
This is the website of the Slovak Tourist Board, and they call it Slovakia:
http://www.sacr.sk/en/slovak-tourist-board/news/
