Our region

basic information Flag Coat of arms Capital: Ostrava Total area: 5,426.83 km2 Total Population: 1,260,503 people

Ostrava Central Station

Enviroment Moravian-Silesian region among the areas with the most damaged environment in the Czech Republic and in some parameters and across Europe. High concentrations of heavy industry in the long term cause severe air pollution. In pollution by carcinogenic benzopyrene include measurement of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute the most contamination areas in the Czech Republic.

Science and education A wide range of 42 grammar schools, 101 secondary vocational schools and 57 secondary vocational schools and 11 higher vocational schools and four high schools (VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava University, Silesian University in Opava and the Business School) that its 17 faculties and provide teaching for more than 38,000 students. Technical University of Ostrava

Economy Thanks deposits of coal in the Ostrava-pan and they bonded metallurgical and other industries belonged to this part of the region already in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the most important industrial areas. In the context of the current decline of heavy industry here, however, considerably increasing unemployment. Will also take a long restoration of the damaged environment. Over half of the region occupied agricultural land, another 35% is forest area (especially in the mountainous areas of Jeseníky and Beskydy).

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