Czech Americans , known in the 19th and early 20th century as
Bohemian Americans, are citizens of the United States who are of
Czech descent. Czechs originate from the
Czech lands, a term which refers to the majority of the traditional
lands of the Bohemian Crown, namely
Bohemia,
Moravia and
Czech Silesia. These lands have been governed by a variety of states, including the
Kingdom of Bohemia, the
Austrian Empire, the
Czechoslovak Republic, and the
Czech Republic. Germans from the Czech lands who emigrated to the United States usually identified as
German American, or, more specifically, as Americans of
German Bohemian descent. According to the
2000 US census, there are 1,262,527 Americans of full or partial Czech descent, in addition to 441,403 persons who list their ancestry as
Czechoslovak.