The Czech Republic is a beautiful country with millions of tourists every year, most of whom come to see one of the most beautiful cities of Europe, Prague. If you’d like to see it or any other part of Czechia too, then you’re going to need to know what currency it uses. Can you use euros in the Czech Republic? Let’s take a look.
Euros in the Czech Republic
It would seem intuitive enough to assume that Czechia may have euros given that it’s a part of the European Union. In reality, however, the country does not use euros and does not seem interested in that prospect either. Though the shift has been proposed as far back as 2005, the surveys continue to show that barely one fifth of the nation’s population would be interested in that change. As such, don’t expect Czechia to enter the eurozone anytime soon.
Czech currency
The currency in the Czech Republic is the Czech koruna (or the Czech crowns). It theoretically came to be in 1993, after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, though it merely replaced the Czechoslovak crown which functioned for a hundred years prior. Czech crowns use the “Kč” (“koruna česká”) as their symbol. Coins are split into ones, twos, fives, tens, twenties and fifties. Banknotes include 100, 200, 500, 1000 and 2000 Kč. Sometimes you may even encounter 5000 Kč.
You can check the current exchange rates here, though, for quick reference, currently one euro is about 25 Czech crowns, one dollar is about 22.5 crowns and one British pound is nearly 30.
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