(CNN) — Tired of having the country's name butchered into Czecho or Czechland, the Czech Republic seeks a more concise name to end the confusion for English speakers.

CNN's Richard Quest continues his trip around the world on low-cost airlines, traveling from the Czech Republic to Sri Lanka

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The Czech leadership has a suggestion: Just call us Czechia.

"Our hope is that this step will overcome the problems we face with distorting the name and that the correct terms will dissolve into general knowledge," according to a statement from the country's foreign ministry press department.

It used to be part of Czechoslovakia, before the country split in 1993 from what is now Slovakia. But that older name still gets bandied about. And the country's name also gets confused with Chechnya, a small republic within the Russian Federation.