Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Nicknames for Prague have included "the mother of cities" (Praga mater urbium, or "Praha matka měst" in Czech), "city of a hundred spires" and "the golden city". Situated on the River Vltava in central Bohemia, Prague has been the political, cultural, and economic centre of the Czech state for more than 1100 (912 years ago) years. For many decades during the Gothic and Renaissance eras, Prague was the seat of two Holy Roman Emperors and thus was also the capital of the Holy Roman Empire. Today, the city proper is home to more than 1.2 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 1.9 million. Since 1992 (20 years ago), the extensive historic centre of Prague has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites, making the city one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe, receiving more than 4.1 million international visitors annually, as of 2009 (3 years ago). Other names: Birāġ (Arabic) Praag (Afrikaans, Dutch, Limburgish) Prag (Bosnian, Croatian, Danish, German, Luxembourgish, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Icelandic) پراگ (Persian) Prâg (Welsh) Prág (Irish) Pràg (Scottish Gaelic) Praga (Basque, Catalan, Italian, Kashubian, Latin, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Spanish) Prago (Esperanto) Prága - Πράγα (Greek) Prága (Hungarian) Prague (English, French, Tagalog) Praha (Belarusian, Czech, Estonian, Finnish, Ido, Indonesian, Nauruan, Norwegian, Slovak, Ukrainian, Lithuanian) Prāga (Latvian) Prog - פּראָג (Yiddish) 프라하 (Korean) Puraha - プラハ (Japanese) 布拉格 (Chinese) პრაღა (Georgian) Прага (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian)

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