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  2. Ostrava - Wikipedia

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    Ostrava (Czech: [ˈostrava] ⓘ; 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.

  3. Slezská Ostrava - Wikipedia

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    Slezská Ostrava. Coordinates: 49°50′14″N 18°17′54″E. Town hall of Slezská Ostrava. Slezská Ostrava (Polish: Śląska Ostrawa, lit. Silesian Ostrava), till 1919 Polnisch Ostrau (Czech: Polská Ostrava, Polish: Polska Ostrawa, lit. Polish Ostrava) is a district of the city of Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian Region in the Czech Republic.

  4. Ostrava Basin - Wikipedia

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    Northern Outer Subcarpathia. The Ostrava Basin (Czech: Ostravská pánev, Polish: Kotlina Ostrawska, German: Ostrauer Becken) is a lowland and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic and Poland. It is located in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic and in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland.

  5. Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    The Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area[3][4] (also known as Upper Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area [a] or Upper Silesian urban-industrial agglomeration[5]) is a polycentric metropolitan area in southern Poland and northeastern Czech Republic, centered on the cities of Katowice and Ostrava, and has around 5 million inhabitants. [1]

  6. Moravian-Silesian Region - Wikipedia

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    The Moravian-Silesian Region (Czech: Moravskoslezský kraj; Polish: Kraj morawsko-śląski; Slovak: Moravsko-sliezsky kraj) is one of the 14 administrative regions of the Czech Republic. Before May 2001, it was called the Ostrava Region (Czech: Ostravský kraj). The region is located in the north-eastern part of its historical region of Moravia ...

  7. Ostrava metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    Website. itiostravsko.cz. 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 ...

  8. Demographics of Poland - Wikipedia

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    Katowice metropolitan area is bordering Rybnik, Bielsko-Biała and Ostrava metropolitan areas from the south and southwest, which combined create a large Upper Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area with 4.5-5.2 million people. Kraków - the historical capital of Poland, with 0.8 million residents in city proper and 1.2 million in the metropolitan ...

  9. Austria-Hungary - Wikipedia

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    Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary, [c] also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe [d] between 1867 and 1918.