Kraj


A kraj is the highest-level administrative unit in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. For lack of other English expressions, the Slavic term is often translated as "province", "region", or "territory", although it approximately means " country", or " countryside". A kraj is subdivided into okresy.
The first kraje were created in the Kingdom of Bohemia during the reign of Charles IV in the 14th century and they lasted till 1862/68. Kraje were reintroduced in 1949 in Czechoslovakia and still exist today in its successor states despite many rearrangements.
In Russia nine of the 85 federal subjects are called krais, coequal to oblasts. The toponym Krajina refers to several historical regions in Slavic countries.

Kraje in the Czech Republic

RegionCzech Name
CapitalPopulation
Area
Population density
GDP
GDP per capita
AHlavní město PrahaPrague1,272,690496.102,360637,704547,096
SStředočeskýPrague1,274,63311,014.97104288,888253,912
CJihočeskýČeské Budějovice 637,46010,056.7962150,970251,106
JVysočinaJihlava512,7276,795.5675121,318234,530
PPlzeňskýPlzeň 574,6947,560.9373137,911216,639
KKarlovarskýKarlovy Vary 310,2453,314.469265,789216,639
UÚsteckýÚstí nad Labem830,3715,334.52154188,041229,146
LLibereckýLiberec439,2623,162.9313594,451229,146
HKrálovéhradeckýHradec Králové555,6834,758.54115133,767244,549
EPardubickýPardubice505,2854,519112116,639230,880
MOlomouckýOlomouc639,9465,266.57123134,376211,467
TMoravskoslezskýOstrava1,236,0285,426.83227280,210222,638
BJihomoravskýBrno1,169,7887,194.56159285,855254,684
ZZlínskýZlín590,4593,963.55149131,789222,885
CZCzech RepublicPrague10,562,21478,864.921302,767,717271,161

Symbols of Czech regions