I have a concern about this edit on Crossing boundary for couple hours inside Schengen with children. The name of my country, Czechia was changed to Czech Republic.
First, this is incorrect since the article the is missing. Second, both forms are correct, even the en.wiki page Czechia redirects to the Czech Republic. So I would like to ask whether it's frowned upon to use the short variant. For me as a Czech person, it's fine and I actually prefer it.
The Czech republic is most known name of the country. FIFA AND the UN using this name, but they use just Germany and not Federal Republic of Germany.
There is also a page about the Name of the Czech Republic:
The Czech term for the Czech lands (i.e. Bohemia, Moravia, Czech Silesia) is Česko. However, the English equivalent "Czechia" /ˈtʃɛki.ə/ is rarely used in the English-speaking world (though it can be found as early as 1866).
That's why I think it's better to use "the Czech republic". However it's your post and you can always do a rollback to older version of the post. When you keep the czech-republic and use "Czechia" in the question's body it would be fine.
At the time the edit and this question were originally discussed, Czechia was indeed virtually unknown in English compared to Czech Republic.
Nevertheless, the government of that country has recently begun a push to popularize Czechia, as reported widely in English media (e.g. NYT, FT, Economist, TAM, SMH and so on), and the campaign has launched the website Go-Czechia.com in support. I don't think the average English speaker had any comprehension of the depth of the controversy.
As such, I would argue that in the future we shouldn't stand in the way of Czechia; while it may or may not gain universal currency, nevertheless we would not suffer to replace every Myanmar with Burma or vice versa, nor Côte d'Ivoire and Ivory Coast.
Travel Stack Exchange uses exclusively English as a language of communication, so all proper names are translated to English where possible, and the native spelling provided where necessary. When there are alternative names, the most common variants are preferred, for purely practical purpose -- facilitating external and internal search, primarily. In this particular case, using Czechia as an alternative name has a very limited appeal -- the official name of the country in English is Czech Republic, and Czechia, while it can be easily inferred which country it refers to, is just not known among speakers of English. The missing definite article is easily added, and you can suggest an edit to the post and it will surely be approved by a moderator or a high-rep user.
For another example, the name of my country is България, but can you tell off-hand which country it refers to? How many other users can? I don't think using this name exclusively is useful to people from 中国, ประเทศไทย or قطر trying to find information about it in English.
The CIA factbook makes no mention of "Czechia" as an English-language variant.
conventional long form: Czech Republic
conventional short form: Czech Republic
local long form: Ceska republika
local short form: Cesko
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ez.html
The United Nations calls it the Czech Republic.
http://www.un.org/en/members/index.shtml#c
Heck, even the Czech Republic government refers to itself as the Czech Republic.
http://www.vlada.cz/en/
Seems to me there's a fairly clear indication of the correct name for the country.
;):p)