Territorial Identity of the Inhabitants of Czechia and Slovakia

Abstract

The aim of the article is to analyze the territorial identity of the inhabitants of Czechia and Slovakia with an emphasis on interregional disparities. The territorial identity of the inhabitants represents their territorial consciousness, their relationship to formal territorial units with some degree of administration. Paper is divided into two main parts – the first part deals with the issue of territorial identity and the second part deals with the analysis of current territorial consciousness of the inhabitants of Czechia and Slovakia. When analyzing the current territorial identity, we pay attention to both the comparison of the consciousness of the inhabitants of Czechia and Slovakia and interregional differences regarding the degree of such consciousness. The source of our data necessary for the analysis is taken from the ISSP 2003 survey programme called “National Identity II”.