Myth No. 1: Czechia is an unknown and possibly grammatically incorrect short name for the Czech Republic. Czechia is rarely used in English because native English speakers do not like to use it.

Fact: The short (geographic) name Czechia [tʃɛkiə] was standardized as the English translation of Česko (the short name of the Czech Republic in Czech) in 1993. Since 2016, after being approved by the Czech government, Czechia has been listed in the United Nations´ databases of official country names as the internationally recognized short name of the Czech Republic in English and included in the International Organization for Standardization database of country names. Czechia is used by global companies, such as Google, Apple and Microsoft (Bing), international institutions, such as the European Union, United Nations and International Air Transport Association, renown atlases and navigation systems, such as the Oxford Atlas of the World and TomTom, and various international statistics, including Covid-19 (such as the World Health Organization, Johns Hopkins University and Worldometer). Although the use of Czechia continues to grow, it has not, up until recently, been well known around the world because the Czech state and its institutions have not used it systematically. Some people confuse the fact that they are not used to Czechia with not liking it.