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Ostrava (Czech pronunciation: ⓘ; Polish: Ostrawa; German: Ostrau) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 280,000 inhabitants. It lies 15 km (9 mi) from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rivers: Oder, Opava, Ostravice and Lučina.
The Ostrava metropolitan area (Czech: Ostravská metropolitní oblast) is the metropolitan area with the city of Ostrava in the Czech Republic at its center. The Ostrava urban area is the largest urban area in the metropolitan area with a population of 365,000. [3] The metropolitan area has over 81% of the population of the Moravian-Silesian ...
The New City Hall (Czech: Nová radnice) is a resperentative building in Ostrava in the Czech Republic. It is the most architecturally important and largest town hall complex from the Interwar period in country. It also has a prominent Czech Modernist style clock and observation tower, the tallest from the period. [1]
Six of its districts, Bruntál, Frýdek-Místek, Karviná, Nový Jičín, Opava, and Ostrava, were in 2000 put into the newly established Moravian-Silesian Region. The old North Moravian Region still exists and jurisdiction of some administrative bodies is defined by its borders.
Svinov (German: Schönbrunn) is a borough and municipal part of Ostrava in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It was a separate town, but it merged with Ostrava on 20 March 1957. It lies on the bank of the Oder River, in the Silesian part of the city. As of 2011 census, Svinov had population of 4,301. [1]
Ostrava is the economic centre of the entire Moravian-Silesian Region. With only one exception, all the largest employers with headquarters in Ostrava-City District and at least 1,000 employees have their seat in Ostrava. The largest employers with headquarters in Ostrava and at least 1,500 employees are: [6]
Map of the Slovak National Uprising Square in Ostrava showing surrounding public buildings. The square, of approximately 7,550 square metres, [4] is situated in Ostrava-Jih, the southernmost and the most populous district of the metropolitan region Ostrava. The main road of this part of the district, Čujkovova Street, traverses the square from ...
Stodolní street is a street in the city centre of Ostrava. It is a unique phenomenon of Ostravian social life. It is a unique phenomenon of Ostravian social life. The street itself and its closest surroundings offers tens of bars, restaurants and clubs, which are abundantly visited by young people, especially during the weekends.