Central Bohemia
Central Bohemia is a region in the Czech Republic. It has two regions for agribusiness purposes: Central Bohemia Region, and capital city Prague. Central Bohemia is a great option for those who want to experience a different part of the Czech Republic beyond crowded Prague, but do not have much time.Photo: Herbert Frank, CC BY 2.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Prague and Kutná Hora.
Prague
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Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. The city's historic buildings and narrow, winding streets are testament to its centuries-old role as capital of the historic region of Bohemia.
Kutná Hora
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Kutná Hora is a town in the Central Bohemia region of the Czech Republic. Although Kutná Hora has some comparatively drab modern architecture, it is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List for the Historical Town Centre, including the Church of St Barbara and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec.
Kladno
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Kladno is a city of 68,000 people in Central Bohemia. It is the largest city in the region and has a rich industrial history.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Mladá Boleslav and Mělník.
Mladá Boleslav
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Mladá Boleslav is a city in the north of the Central Bohemia region of the Czech Republic. The city, known for its Škoda automobile manufacturing, is 54 km northeast of Prague on the left bank of the Jizera (at the confluence of the Klenice, which comes from the northeast.
Mělník
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Mělník is a city in Central Bohemia. It lies on the confluence of two of Bohemia most important rivers - Vltava and Elbe. It is located 25 km north of Prague.
Příbram
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Příbram is a city of 33,000 people in Central Bohemia mostly on the right bank of the Litavka River. It is well known for its mining museum. The Svatá Hora pilgrimage site above the town is the oldest and most important Marian pilgrimage site in Bohemia.
Benešov
Kolín
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Kolín is a city in Central Bohemia. It has about 33,000 inhabitants in 2023. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument reservation.
Nymburk
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Nymburk is a city in Central Bohemia region of the Czech Republic. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone.
Beroun
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Beroun is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 22,000 inhabitants. It lies at the confluence of the Berounka and Litavka rivers.
Poděbrady
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Podebrady is a town in the Czech Republic. The small and pleasant spa town of Podebrady is an hour or two to the northeast of Prague.
Rakovník
Prague-West District
Prague-East District
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Prague-East District is a district in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is Prague. The most populated town of the district is Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav.
Říčany
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Říčany is a town in Prague-East District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 17,000 inhabitants. According to the national Quality of Life Index, which has been comparing the standard of living in the cities and towns of the Czech Republic since 2018, the town is rated the best place to live in the country in all years.
Kralupy nad Vltavou
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Kralupy nad Vltavou is a town in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 19,000 inhabitants. It is known as a traffic hub and industrial agglomeration.
Zruč nad Sázavou
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Zruč nad Sázavou is a small town in the Central Bohemia region of the Czech Republic.
Karlštejn
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Central Bohemia
- Type: region of the Czech Republic with 1,370,000 residents
- Description: region of the Czech Republic
- Also known as: “Central Bohemia Region”, “Central Bohemian Region”, “CZ020”, and “Středočeský kraj”
- Neighbors: Highlands, Prague, and South Bohemia
- Location: Czech Republic, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Central Bohemia” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ማዕከላዊ ቦሄሚያ”
- Arabic: “إقليم بوهيميا الوسطى”
- Arabic: “محافظة بوهيميا الوسطى”
- Aragonese: “Bohemia Central”
- Armenian: “Կենտրոնաչեխական շրջան”
- Armenian: “Միջինչեխական երկրամաս”
- Asturian: “Rexón de Bohemia Central”
- Azerbaijani: “Orta Çex diyarı”
- Azerbaijani: “Orta Çexiya diyarı”
- Balinese: “Region Bohemia Tengah”
- Basque: “Bohemia Erdialdeko eskualdea”
- Basque: “Erdialdeko Bohemia”
- Basque: “Erdialdeko Bohemiako eskualdea”
- Belarusian: “Сярэднечэскі край”
- Belarusian: “Сярэднячэскі край”
- Belarusian: “Сярэднячэшскі край”
- Bengali: “কেন্দ্রীয় বোহেমিয়া”
- Bengali: “সেন্ট্রাল বুহেমিয়ান অঞ্চল”
- Bosnian: “Srednjočeški kraj”
- Bosnian: “Srednočeški kraj”
- Bosnian: “Středočeský kraj”
- Breton: “Rannvro Kreiz Bohemia”
- Bulgarian: “Среднобохемски край”
- Bulgarian: “Средночешки край”
- Catalan: “Bohèmia Central”
- Catalan: “Regió de Bohèmia Central”
- Catalan: “Středočeský”
- Cebuano: “Středočeský kraj”
- Chechen: “Йуккъера Чехин мохк”
- Chinese: “Tiong Bohemia Chiu”
- Chinese: “中捷克州”
- Chinese: “中波希米亚州”
- Chinese: “中波希米亞州”
- Chuvash: “Вăта Чех ен”
- Croatian: “Središnja Češka”
- Croatian: “Středočeský kraj”
- Czech: “kraj Středočeský”
- Czech: “Střední Čechy”
- Czech: “Středočeský kraj”
- Czech: “Středočeský”
- Danish: “Centralböhmen”
- Danish: “Centralbøhmen”
- Danish: “Středočeský kraj”
- Dimli (individual language): “Bohemya Merkezi”
- Dimli (individual language): “Středočeský kraj”
- Dutch: “Centraal-Boheemse Regio”
- Dutch: “Centraal-Bohemen”
- Dutch: “Midden-Bohemen”
- Esperanto: “Mezbohemia regiono”
- Estonian: “Kesk-Böömi maakond”
- Estonian: “Kesk-Tšehhi maakond”
- Finnish: “Keski-Böömin lääni”
- French: “Bohême centrale”
- French: “Boheme-Centrale”
- French: “Bohême-Centrale”
- French: “Région de Bohême centrale”
- French: “Středočeský kraj”
- Galician: “Bohemia Central”
- Georgian: “ცენტრალური ბოჰემიის მხარე”
- German: “CZ-ST”
- German: “Mittelböhmen”
- German: “Mittelböhmische Region”
- German: “Mittelböhmisches Gebiet”
- German: “Region Mittelböhmen”
- German: “Stredocesky kraj”
- German: “Středočeský kraj”
- Greek: “Περιφέρεια Κεντρικής Βοημίας”
- Gujarati: “સેન્ટ્રલ બોહેમિયન પ્રદેશ”
- Hausa: “Central Bohemia”
- Hebrew: “בוהמיה המרכזית”
- Hebrew: “מחוז מרכז בוהמיה”
- Hebrew: “מרכז בוהמיה”
- Hindi: “केंद्रीय बोहेमियन क्षेत्र”
- Hungarian: “Közép-csehországi kerület”
- Indonesian: “Bohemia Tengah”
- Indonesian: “Daerah Bohemia Tengah”
- Indonesian: “Středočeský kraj”
- Italian: “Boemia centrale”
- Italian: “Boemia Centrale”
- Italian: “Regione della Boemia centrale”
- Japanese: “中央ボヘミア州”
- Japanese: “中央ボヘミア県”
- Javanese: “Central Bohemia”
- Kannada: “ಸೆಂಟ್ರಲ್ ಬೋಹೀಮಿಯನ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Kazakh: “Орталық Богемия”
- Kirghiz: “Борбордук Богемия”
- Korean: “중앙 보헤미아 주”
- Korean: “중앙보헤미아 주”
- Korean: “중앙보헤미아주”
- Latvian: “Centrālbohēmijas apgabals”
- Latvian: “Centrālčehijas apgabals”
- Latvian: “Vidusčehijas apgabals”
- Lithuanian: “Centrinis Bohemijos kraštas”
- Lithuanian: “Vidurio Čekija”
- Lithuanian: “Vidurio Čekijos kraštas”
- Lombard: “Boemia Central”
- Lombard: “Boemia centrala”
- Macedonian: “Средночешки крај”
- Malay: “Daerah Bohemia Tengah”
- Malay: “Wilayah Bohemia Tengah”
- Maltese: “Reġjun tal-Boemja Ċentrali”
- Marathi: “सेंट्रल बोहेमियन प्रदेश”
- Mazanderani: “مرکزی بوهم اوستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tiong Bohemia Chiu”
- Northern Frisian: “Středočeský kraj”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sentral-Böhmen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sentralbøhmen region”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Středočeský kraj”
- Norwegian: “Sentral-Böhmen”
- Norwegian: “Sentralböhmen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Boèmia Centrala”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Středočeský kraj”
- Oromo: “Central Bohemia”
- Ossetian: “Астæуккаг Чехийы край”
- Pampanga: “Central Bohemian Labuad”
- Pampanga: “Kalibudtang Bohemian Labuad”
- Panjabi: “ਕੇਂਦਰੀ ਬੋਹੀਮੀਆ”
- Persian: “استان بوهم مرکزی”
- Persian: “منطقه بوهمی مرکزی”
- Polish: “Kraj środkowoczeski”
- Polish: “Středočeský kraj”
- Portuguese: “Boémia central”
- Portuguese: “Boémia Central”
- Portuguese: “Boêmia Central”
- Pushto: “مرکزي بوهیمیا”
- Quechua: “Chawpi Bohemya suyu”
- Romanian: “Boemia Centrală”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Boemia Centrală”
- Russian: “Средне-Чешский край”
- Russian: “Среднечешская область”
- Russian: “Среднечешский край”
- Russian: “Центральночешский край”
- Rusyn: “Середочешскый край”
- Serbian: “Centralnočeški kraj”
- Serbian: “Srednječeški kraj”
- Serbian: “Srednjočeški kraj”
- Serbian: “Středočeský kraj”
- Serbian: “Средњечешки крај”
- Serbian: “Средњочешки крај”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Srednjočeški kraj”
- Sinhala: “මධ්යම බොහිමියන් කලාපය”
- Slovak: “Stredočeský kraj”
- Slovak: “Středočeský kraj”
- Slovenian: “CZ-ST”
- Slovenian: “Osrednječeški okraj”
- Slovenian: “Středočeský kraj”
- Somali: “Central Bohemia”
- South Azerbaijani: “مرکزی بوهم اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Bohemia Central”
- Spanish: “Region de Bohemia Central”
- Spanish: “Región de Bohemia Central”
- Swahili: “Central Bohemia”
- Swedish: “Centralböhmen”
- Swedish: “länet Mellersta Böhmen”
- Swedish: “Mellersta Böhmen”
- Swedish: “Region Centralböhmen”
- Tajik: “Богемияи Марказӣ”
- Tamil: “சென்ட்ரல் பொஹீமியான் பகுதி”
- Tamil: “மத்திய பொஹிமியா”
- Tatar: “Урта Чехия төбәге”
- Tatar: “Үзәк Богемия”
- Telugu: “మధ్య బొహీమియా ప్రాంతము”
- Thai: “แคว้นเซนทรัลโบฮีเมีย”
- Turkish: “Orta Bohemia”
- Turkish: “Orta Bohemya”
- Ukrainian: “Середньочеський край”
- Ukrainian: “Центральночеський край”
- Upper Sorbian: “Srjedźočěski kraj”
- Upper Sorbian: “Středočeský kraj”
- Urdu: “مرکزی بوہیمیائی ریجن”
- Urdu: “مرکزی بوہیمیائی علاقہ”
- Uzbek: “Markaziy Bogemia”
- Vietnamese: “Čechy Trung”
- Vietnamese: “Středočeský kraj”
- Vietnamese: “Trung Bohemia”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng Trung Bohemian”
- Waray (Philippines): “Butnga nga Bohemia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Central Bohemian”
- Western Panjabi: “وچکارلا بوہیمیائی علاقہ”
- Wu Chinese: “中波希米亚州”
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