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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.
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.
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]
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 ...
Colours of Ostrava, or simply Colours, a multi-genre event, is the biggest international music festival in Czechia and one of the biggest in Central Europe, held every summer since 2002 in Ostrava, the third largest city in the country. Colours features 16 stages, including 4 big open-air stages (the main one with a capacity of 15,000), 6 ...
The Ostrava tramway network is the third largest tram network in the Czech Republic. The network is operated by Dopravní podnik Ostrava, a company wholly owned by the city of Ostrava that also runs the city's bus and trolleybus network. As of 2022, DPO runs 17 lines with a total route length of 231.5 kilometres (143.8 mi) on 62.7 kilometres ...
Mošnov, Ostrava Airport Railway station is situated next to the terminal building. Services to Ostrava are on the České dráhy train to and from Ostrava-Svinov in Ostrava-Poruba and furthermore to and from Ostrava hlavní nádraží (The Main train station). Ostrava-Svinov is served by the tram, local bus services, coach services offering ...
Katowice in Silesian Voivodeship (Poland), the biggest city of the largest urban area in the Upper Silesian metropolitan area.. The Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area [3] [4] (also known as Upper Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area or Upper Silesian urban-industrial agglomeration [5]) is a polycentric metropolitan area in southern Poland and northeastern Czech Republic, centered on the cities ...