Czech Republic is a sovereign nation in Central Europe.
The Czech Republic -LRB- -LSB- tki -RSB- , ; esko , -LSB- tsko -RSB- -RRB- , is a nation state in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west , Austria to the south , Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast .	Czech	Czechs	Czech Republic	Dissolution of Czechoslovakia	Slovakia	Slovakia	nation state	nation state	Central Europe	Central Europe	Germany	Germany	Austria	Austria	Poland	Poland
A nation state is a type of state that joins the political entity of a state to the cultural entity of a nation , from which it aims to derive its political legitimacy to rule and potentially its status as a sovereign state .	state	state (polity)	nation	nation	political legitimacy	Legitimacy (political)	sovereign state	sovereign state	political	Politics	cultural	Culture
