List of regions of Czechia
See more: List of regions of Czechia In 1960, Czechoslovakia was re-divided into districts (okres, plural okresy) often without regard to traditional division and local relationships. In the area of the Czech Republic, there were 75 districts; a 76th Jeseník District was split in the 1990s from Šumperk District. Three consisted only of statutory cities (statutární města, sing. město) Brno, Ostrava and Plzeň which gained the status of districts only in 1971; the capital city of Prague (Hlavní město Praha) had a special status, but ten districts of Prague (obvody) were in some ways equivalent to okres. A reform in effect since January 2003 replaced the districts with 204 Municipalities with Extended Competence (obce s rozšířenou působností; also obce III. stupně - third-level municipalities, unofficially also called "little districts" (Czech: malé okresy) which took over most of the administration of the former district authorities. Some of these are further divided between Municipalities with Commissioned Local Authority (obce s pověřeným obecním úřadem, shortened to pověřená obec, pl. pověřené obce; "second-level municipalities"). Hagstag: #Czechia |
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