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Czechia or Chechnya? Multiple Choice Quiz

Can you distinguish between the two similarly-named republics of Czechia and Chechnya? (Hint: Neither of them has a checkered flag.)
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Last updated: March 19, 2023
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First submittedMarch 19, 2023
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1. It's an independent country.
Chechnya is a Russian republic.
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2. Its Head of Government is Ramzan Kadyrov.
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3. Its population is below 5 million.
Chechnya has about 1.5 million people, Czechia has 10.5 million.
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4. Its flag has green on it.
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5. Its average life expectancy is higher than 72 years.
For Chechnya it's 73.0 years, for Czechia it's 79.5 years (both figures are from the year 2021).
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6. It borders a sea.
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7. It has an official language that is in the Slavic language family.
Chechnya has two official languages - Russian (which is Slavic) and Chechen (which is not). Czechia has one - Czech, which is a Slavic language.
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8. It contains the region of Bohemia.
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9. The predominant religion is Islam.
95 % of Chechnyans practice Islam.
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10. Half of the population claims NO allegiance to any Church or religion.
It was 47.8 % according to the last Czech census in 2021.
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11. Its first democratically elected president was killed in 1996 by Russian forces.
His name was Dzhokhar Dudayev.
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12. During the USSR era, it was merged with another country and had a status of an "Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic".
Chechnya was merged with Ingushetia. Czechia (or Czechoslovakia back then) was never a part of the USSR, although it was under its sphere of influence (as a so-called "satellite").
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