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PORTRAIT OF THE REGIONS 13 16 17 CA-17-98-281-EN-C PORTRAIT OF THE REGIONS VOLUME 6 CZECH REPUBLIC POLAND VOLUME 6 CZECH REPUBLIC / POLAND Price (excluding VAT) in Luxembourg: EUR 50 ISBN 92-828-4395-5 OFFICE FOR OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,!7IJ2I2-iedjfg! EUROPEAN COMMISSION › L-2985 Luxembourg ࢞ eurostat Statistical Office of the European Communities PORTRAIT OF THE REGIONS VOLUME 6 CZECH REPUBLIC POLAND EUROPEAN COMMISSION ࢞ eurostat Statistical Office of the European Communities Immediate access to harmonized statistical data Eurostat Data Shops: A personalised data retrieval service In order to provide the greatest possible number of people with access to high-quality statistical information, Eurostat has developed an extensive network of Data Shops (1). 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For further information, visit us on the Internet at: www.europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/ A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the Internet. It can be accessed through the Europa server (http://europa.eu.int). Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2000 ISBN 92-828-4395-5 © European Communities, 2000 Printed in Belgium Printed on white chlorine-free paper Foreword With the fourth volume of Portrait of the Regions, Eurostat completed the regional analysis of the 15 countries that today constitute the European Union. However, the prospect and implications of the possible enlargement to some central European countries very soon became evident, implying the need to know the regions of these countries much more deeply. The fifth volume, published in 1997, covers the regions of Hungary. The series is now extended to Poland and the Czech Republic with the publication of the present vol- ume. To maintain a uniformity of presentation of the characteristics of the regions, the same structure as before has been used as far as possible and the regions are illustrated with maps, diagrams and statistical tables. The description includes comments on demography, economic conditions, the labour market, education, territory, resources, transport, environment and cooperation with border regions. Which regions have young populations? What is the weight of agriculture in the econ- omy? What is the level of unemployment? Which European regions have the same population density as the Polish region of Katowice? These are some of the questions that this new volume helps answer. This volume of Portrait of the Regions dedicated to Poland and the Czech Republic is the result of cooperation between Eurostat and the statistical offices of these coun- tries. Its development was coordinated by Ecos-Ouverture, a cooperation programme linking the regions and cities of eastern and western Europe. I would like to give a word of appreciation to all those from the Polish and Czech stat- istical offices, and from Eurostat, who contributed to this valuable work and made pos- sible its publication. Yves Franchet Director-General of Eurostat PORTRAIT OF THE REGIONS III eurostat This volume was produced with the collaboration of the Central Statistical Office of Poland, the Czech Statistical Office and coordinated by ECOS-Ouverture. Its publication was made possible by the financial support of the Phare programme. Its contents do not necessarily reflect the official views of the institutions of the European Communities. ECOS-Ouverture is the European Commission's programme This project is financed by the European Union's Phare pro- for cooperation between the regions and cities of the gramme, which provides grant finance to support its partner European Union and their counterparts in central and eastern countries in central and eastern Europe to the stage where Europe. they are ready to assume the obligations of European Union membership. Czech Republic Text drafted in the Central Statistical Office of the Czech Republic, with the involvement of the CSO’s Regional Statistics Database Administration Unit headed by Jitka Pacanová, under the supervision of Václav Ježdik, direc- tor, Regional Statistics Division. Poland Text drafted in the Central Statistical Office of Poland, with the involvement of the regional statistical offices, by B. Prażmo, H. Hodzyńska, E. Grobicka, A. Patejuk, A. Pytalska, S. Rola-Kunach, and J. Poświata, under the supervision of H. Dmochowska, director Analysis and Aggregate Statistics Division. PORTRAIT OF THE REGIONS V eurostat Structure of the publication 1 2 CZECH REPUBLIC 3 Photograph Map Czech Republic of the region Each region is presented in accordance with a uni- form layout on six pages: 1 Graph Page 1: 4 — overview of the region (1) — strengths and weaknesses (2) Page 2: — list of similar regions in the EU (3) 2 Table — international cooperation (4) Page 3: — employment (5) 1 PORTRAIT OF THE REGIONS eurostat 1 PORTRAIT OF THE REGIONS eurostat Page 4: — population (6) — natural resources (7) CZECH REPUBLIC 3 4 CZECH REPUBLIC Page 5: Graph Graph Graph 6 — economic structure (8) — environment (9) Page 6: Graph GraphGraph Table — transport (10) 5 The regional portraits are preceded by a national page and end with explanatory notes. 7 Graph The legend for the regional maps is given on the last page of the publication. Table Table 1 PORTRAIT OF THE REGIONS eurostat 1 PORTRAIT OF THE REGIONS eurostat CZECH REPUBLIC 5 6 CZECH REPUBLIC Table Table Table Table Graph 8 10 Table Table Table Table 9 Poland 1 PORTRAIT OF THE REGIONS eurostat 1 PORTRAIT OF THE REGIONS eurostat A similar pattern is followed for Poland but the country’s 49 voivodships are each covered in three pages. Accordingly, the distribution of information differs to some extent. A diagram of the layout of this section may be found on page 52, immediately preceding the national page for Poland. VI PORTRAIT OF THE REGIONS eurostat The PORTRAIT OF THE Table of contents VOLUME 6 REGIONS consists of seven volumes: CZECH REPUBLIC POLAND Volume 1 Germany Benelux CZECH REPUBLIC 1 POLAND (continued) Denmark Volume 2 France Praha 2 Leszno voivodship 115 United Kingdom Středočeský 8 Lublin voivodship 118 Ireland Jihočeský 14 Łomża voivodship 121 Západočeský 20 Volume 3 Portugal Łódź voivodship 124 Spain Severočeský 26 Nowy Sącz voivodship 127 Italy Východočeský 32 Olsztyn voivodship 130 Greece Jihomoravský 38 Opole voivodship 133 Severomoravský 44 Volume 4 Austria Ostrołęka voivodship 136 Finland Piła voivodship 139 Sweden Explanatory notes 50 Piotrków Trybunalski voivodship 142 Iceland Płock voivodship 145 Liechtenstein Norway Poznań voivodship 148 Switzerland Przemyśl voivodship 151 POLAND 53 Radom voivodship 154 Volume 5 Hungary Rzeszów voivodship 157 Warszawa voivodship 55 Volume 6 Czech Republic Siedlce voivodship 160 Poland Biała Podlaska voivodship 58 Sieradz voivodship 163 Białystok voivodship 61 Skierniewice voivodship 166 Volume 7 Slovakia Bielsko-Biała voivodship 64 Słupsk voivodship 169 Romania Bydgoszcz voivodship 67 Suwałki voivodship 172 Chełm voivodship 70 Szczecin voivodship 175 Ciechanów voivodship 73 Tarnobrzeg voivodship 178 Częstochowa voivodship 76 Tarnów voivodship 181 Elbląg voivodship 79 Toruń voivodship 184 Gdańsk voivodship 82 Wałbrzych voivodship 187 Gorzów Wielkopolski voivodship 85 Włocławek voivodship 190 Jelenia Góra voivodship 88 Wrocław voivodship 193 Kalisz voivodship 91 Zamość voivodship 196 Katowice voivodship 94 Zielona Góra voivodship 199 Kielce voivodship 97 Konin voivodship 100 Explanatory notes 203 Koszalin voivodship 103 Kraków voivodship 106 Bibliography 205 Krosno voivodship 109 Legend to maps 207 Legnica voivodship 112 Symbol and abbreviations 207 VII CZECH REPUBLIC The Czechoslovak Republic came into comprise the capital city, Prague, and Fourteen cities have special administrat- being following the disintegration of the the regions of Central Bohemia, South ive powers and exercise a higher degree Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918. Bohemia, West Bohemia, North of local government. These cities may be However, it was not in existence for very Bohemia, East Bohemia, South Moravia divided into sectors (městské části). long. Following the Munich Agreement and North Moravia. Prague, as the capital city, has a special of 1939, Slovakia broke away and the status; it is one of the 14h statutory Czech lands were occupied by The regions are subdivided into districts cities as well as being a region in its own Germany, which established the protec- (okresy). The Czech Republic has 76 dis- right. It is the seat of the president, the torate of Bohemia and Moravia. After lib- tricts, with each region comprising