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This is a list of municipalities of the Czech Republic which have status of a city, town or market town granted by law. As of 2024, there are 27 cities, 583 towns and 232 market towns in the Czech Republic. The population is shown in brackets and is current to 1 January 2024. [1]
Border crossing point between Sebnitz, Germany (foreground) and Dolní Poustevna, Czech Republic (background) Czech–German border (red). The border between the Czech Republic and Germany (Czech: Česko-německá státní hranice; German: Grenze zwischen Deutschland und Tschechien) is the international border between the Czech Republic and Germany.
The Czech Republic, [c] [12] also known as Czechia, [d] [13] and historically known as Bohemia, [14] is a landlocked country in Central Europe.The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. [15]
Silesia [a] (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.Its area is approximately 40,000 km 2 (15,400 sq mi), and the population is estimated at 8,000,000.
According to Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon, [100] Central Europe is a part of Europe composed of Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Switzerland, and northern marginal regions of Italy and Yugoslavia (northern states – Croatia and Slovenia), as well as northeastern ...
The Elbe (German: ⓘ; Czech: Labe ⓘ; Low German: Ilv or Elv; Upper and Lower Sorbian: Łobjo, pronounced) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe.It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Republic), then Germany and flowing into the North Sea at Cuxhaven, 110 kilometres (68 miles) northwest of Hamburg.
The Czech Republic also possesses Moldauhafen, a 30,000 m 2 enclave in the middle of Hamburg docks in Germany, which was awarded to Czechoslovakia by Article 363 of the Treaty of Versailles to allow the landlocked country a place where goods transported down river could be transferred to seagoing ships. This territory reverts to Germany in 2028.
Moravia [a] (Czech: Morava ⓘ; German: Mähren [ˈmɛːʁən] ⓘ) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia.