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    • MUNICIPALITIES WITH EXTENDED JURISDICTION

    Bystřice nad Pernštejnem, Havlíčkův Brod, Humpolec, Chotěboř, Jihlava, Moravské Budějovice, Náměšť nad Oslavou, Nové Město na Moravě, Pacov, Pelhřimov, Světlá nad Sázavou, Telč, Třebíč, Velké Meziříčí, Žďár nad Sázavou

    Vysočina in figures:

    Size: 6,796 km2, ranked fifth amongst 14 Czech regions, approx. 9 per cent of the Czech Republic’s total size
    Population:511,000
    Number of municipalities: 704, second highest of the regions
    Population density: 75 persons per km2
    Average age of inhabitants: 39.5 years
    Value of regional property in 2006: CZK 21,261,576,000
    Number of allowance organizations in the Region: 141
    Number of allowance organizations’ employees: 11,500

    Did you know that…

    …there are 2,700 km of marked hiking trails and 2,400 biking trails in Vysočina?
    …there are two protected land reserves, nine nature parks, and 170 small-scale protected areas in Vysočina?
    …one third of Czech potatoes and 15 per cent cows in the Czech Republic are grown in Vysočina?
    …approx. one third of the Region’s total area is wooded?
    …unemployment in Vysočina has for a long time been about one per cent below the country’s average?
    …both the Bohemian and Moravian metropoles – Prague and Brno – are supplied with drinking water from Vysočina?
    …Vysočina has three UNESCO sites, more than any other Czech region?

    ikona tabulka Table – Some of Vysočina’s superlatives…