Highlands
The Highlands region is a region in the Czech Republic. It is a part of Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, an extensive and long range of hills and low mountains over 150 kilometres long, hence the name.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Jihlava and Třebíč.
Jihlava
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Jihlava is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 55,000 inhabitants. Jihlava is the capital of the Vysočina Region, situated on the Jihlava River on the historical border between Moravia and Bohemia.
Třebíč
Třebíč is a town in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 35,000 inhabitants. The beginnings of the town's history are connected with the establishment of a Benedictine monastery, where the castle is located today.
Telč
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Telč is a town of around 5,100 inhabitants in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands of the Czech Republic. It is the best preserved of all the Bohemian and Moravian Renaissance towns and the historical heart of the town was registered in 1992 on the UNESCO's List of World Cultural Heritage sites.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Nové Město na Moravě and Žďár nad Sázavou.
Nové Město na Moravě
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Nové Město na Moravě is a town in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands of the Czech Republic. It has 10,464 inhabitants. Near Nové Město na Moravě, there is a test facility of EGU Brno.
Žďár nad Sázavou
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Žďár nad Sázavou is a city at the frontier of Bohemia and Moravia in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands of the Czech Republic. It is in the centre of the protected landscape area of Zdarske Vrchy.
Pelhřimov
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Pelhřimov is a small district capital in Vysočina with a nice town square and historical centre. With a fountain in the middle of the square and historical buildings around it is a beautiful place to stop when travelling from the highway towards České Budějovice.
Třešť
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Třešť is a town of 5,600 people in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands half way between Jihlava and Telč. Třešť is known as a town of Christmas nativity scenes.
Humpolec
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Humpolec is in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands. It lies between Prague and Brno.
Kamenice nad Lipou
Kamenice nad Lipou is a small town in Highlands region of Czech Republic. It is home to about 4,000 people. The town is known for the scenic narrow gauge railway from Jindřichův Hradec, its chateau with an ancient lime tree and the main square with historical buildings.
Highlands
- Type: region of the Czech Republic with 509,000 residents
- Description: region of the Czech Republic
- Also known as: “CZ063”, “Jihlava Region”, “Jihlavský Kraj”, “Kraj Vysočina”, “Vysocina Region”, and “Vysočina Region”
- Neighbors: Central Bohemia, South Bohemia, and South Moravia
- Location: Czech Republic, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Highlands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إقليم فيسوتشنا”
- Arabic: “محافظة فيسوتشينا”
- Armenian: “Վիսոչինա երկրամաս”
- Armenian: “Վիսոչինի ծայրամաս”
- Azerbaijani: “Vısoçina diyarı”
- Balinese: “Region Vysočina”
- Basque: “Vysocina”
- Belarusian: “Высачына (край)”
- Belarusian: “Высачына”
- Belarusian: “край Высачына”
- Belarusian: “Край Высачына”
- Bengali: “ভাইসোচিনা অঞ্চল”
- Bosnian: “Visočinski kraj”
- Breton: “Rannvro Vysočina”
- Bulgarian: “Височински край”
- Catalan: “Regió de Vysočina”
- Cebuano: “Kraj Vysočina”
- Chechen: “Высочина (мохк)”
- Chechen: “Высочина”
- Chinese: “Vysočina Chiu”
- Chinese: “波希米亚-摩拉维亚高地”
- Chinese: “維索奇納州”
- Chinese: “维索奇纳州”
- Chinese: “高地州”
- Chuvash: “Высочина енĕ”
- Croatian: “Vysočina”
- Czech: “Jihlavský kraj”
- Czech: “Kraj Vysočina”
- Czech: “Vysočina”
- Danish: “Vysočina”
- Dutch: “Boheems-Moravische Hoogten”
- Dutch: “Regio Vysocina”
- Dutch: “Vysocina Regio”
- Dutch: “Vysocina”
- Dutch: “Vysočina”
- Esperanto: “Regiono Vysocina”
- Esperanto: “Regiono Vysočina”
- Estonian: “Vysočina maakond”
- Estonian: “Vysočina”
- Finnish: “Vysočinan lääni”
- French: “Kraj Vysočina”
- French: “Monts de Bohême-Moravie”
- French: “Region de Vysocina”
- French: “Région de Vysočina”
- French: “Vysočina”
- Georgian: “ვისოჩინის მხარე”
- German: “CZ-VY”
- German: “Gebiet Oberland”
- German: “Jihlavsky kraj”
- German: “Kraj Vysocina”
- German: “Kraj Vysočina”
- German: “Region Hochland”
- German: “Region Vysocina”
- German: “Region Vysočina”
- German: “Vysocinsky kraj”
- Greek: “Κράι Βίσοτσινα”
- Gujarati: “વિસોસિના પ્રદેશ”
- Hebrew: “הרמה הבוהמית-מוראבית”
- Hebrew: “ויסוצ’ינה”
- Hebrew: “מחוז ויסוצ’ינה”
- Hebrew: “מחוז ייהלבה”
- Hindi: “विसोकिना क्षेत्र”
- Hungarian: “Vysočina kerület”
- Indonesian: “Daerah Vysočina”
- Indonesian: “Kraj Vysočina”
- Indonesian: “Vysocina”
- Indonesian: “Vysočina”
- Italian: “Alture boemo-morave”
- Italian: “Regione di Vysocina”
- Italian: “regione di Vysočina”
- Italian: “Regione di Vysočina”
- Italian: “Regione Vysočina”
- Italian: “Vysocina”
- Italian: “Vysočina”
- Japanese: “ヴィソチナ州”
- Japanese: “ヴィソチナ県”
- Kannada: “ವೈಸೋಸಿನಾ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Korean: “비소치나주”
- Latvian: “Visočinas apgabals”
- Lithuanian: “Vysočina”
- Lithuanian: “Vysočinos kraštas”
- Lithuanian: “Vysočinos regionas”
- Lombard: “Region de Vysočina”
- Macedonian: “Височински крај”
- Malay: “Daerah Vysočina”
- Malay: “Wilayah Vysočina”
- Maltese: “Reġjun ta‘ Vysočina”
- Marathi: “व्हिस्चेना प्रदेश”
- Mazanderani: “ویسوچینا اوستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vysočina Chiu”
- Northern Frisian: “Vysočina”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kraj Vysočina”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vysočina region”
- Norwegian: “Vysočina”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Vysočina”
- Ossetian: “Высочинæ (край)”
- Ossetian: “Высочинæ”
- Pampanga: “Vysočina Labuad”
- Persian: “استان ویسوچینا”
- Persian: “ویسوچینا”
- Polish: “Kraj Vysočina”
- Polish: “Kraj Wysoczyna”
- Polish: “Kraj Wysoczyzna”
- Polish: “Vysočina”
- Portuguese: “Vysocina”
- Portuguese: “Vysočina”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Vysocina”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Vysočina”
- Romanian: “Vysočina”
- Russian: “Высочина”
- Russian: “Край Высочина”
- Rusyn: “Край Высочина”
- Serbian: “Kraj Visočina”
- Serbian: “Vysočina kraj”
- Serbian: “Височина крај”
- Serbian: “Крај Височина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kraj Vysočina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vysočina”
- Sinhala: “වයිසොකිනා කලාපය”
- Slovak: “Kraj Vysočina”
- Slovenian: “CZ-VY”
- Slovenian: “Kraj Vysočina”
- Slovenian: “Okraj Vysočina”
- Slovenian: “Visočinski okraj”
- South Azerbaijani: “ویسوچینا اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Region de Jihlava”
- Spanish: “Región de Jihlava”
- Spanish: “Region de Vysocina”
- Spanish: “Region de Vysočina”
- Spanish: “Región de Vysocina”
- Spanish: “Región de Vysočina”
- Swedish: “Region Vysocina”
- Swedish: “Vysočina”
- Tamil: “வயசோஸினா பகுதி”
- Tatar: “Высочина төбәге”
- Telugu: “వైసోసినా ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “แคว้นวิโซชินา”
- Turkish: “Vysocina Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Vysočina”
- Ukrainian: “Край Височина”
- Ukrainian: “Край Височіна”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kraj Vysočina”
- Upper Sorbian: “Vysočina”
- Urdu: “ویسوچیانا ریجن”
- Urdu: “ویسوچیانا علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng Vysočina”
- Vietnamese: “Vysočina kraj”
- Vietnamese: “Vysočina”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vysočina”
- Western Panjabi: “ویسوچینا علاقہ”
- Wu Chinese: “维索基纳州”
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