Moravian-Silesian Region
Ostrava-City District
Ostrava

Ostrava

Ostrava is a city in the borderland of Moravia and Silesia in the . With a population of 290,000, it is the third largest city in the Czech Republic and the centre of the second largest urban agglomeration after Prague.
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  • Type: City with 280,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of the Moravian-Silesian Region, the Czech Republic
  • Also known as: “Ostrau” and “Statutární město Ostrava”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bazaly and Antonin Dvorak Theater.

Stadium
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The stadium is a football in Ostrava, . It lays in , the part of the city, next to the Ostravice River.

Theater building
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The Antonín Dvořák Theatre is an opera house in Ostrava, , which opened in 1907. Since 1919 it has been one of two permanent venues of the National Moravian Silesian Theatre.

Church
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, located in the center of Ostrava, is the second largest Roman Catholic cathedral in and . This three-nave Neo-Renaissance basilica with a semi-circular apse and two 67m high towers is dating since 1889.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Moravská Ostrava a Přívoz and Slezská Ostrava.

Suburb
is a borough of the city of Ostrava, . Situated in the north-central part of the city, it comprises the city parts , located in the southern part of the borough on the left bank of the River, and , located in the northern part on the right bank of the River.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a municipal part of the city of Ostrava, . Originally a separate town, it was merged with Ostrava on 1 January 1924. On 24 November 1990, was merged with to form the a Hulváky borough, one of the 23 self-governing boroughs of Ostrava.

Ostrava

Latitude
49.8349° or 49° 50′ 6″ north
Longitude
18.282° or 18° 16′ 55″ east
Population
280,000
Elevation
211 metres (692 feet)
IATA airport code
OSR
United Nations Location Code
CZ OSR
Open location code
8FXWR7MJ+XR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1601523251
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3068799
Wiki­data ID
Q8385
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ostrava” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ostrava”
  • Albanian: “Ostrava”
  • Arabic: “أوسترافا”
  • Armenian: “Օստրավա”
  • Asturian: “Ostrava”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ostrava”
  • Bashkir: “Острава”
  • Basque: “Ostrava”
  • Belarusian: “Острава”
  • Bengali: “ওস্ট্রাভা”
  • Bosnian: “Ostrava”
  • Breton: “Ostrava”
  • Bulgarian: “Острава”
  • Catalan: “Ostrava”
  • Cebuano: “Ostrava”
  • Chechen: “Острава”
  • Chinese: “Ostrava”
  • Chinese: “俄斯特拉发”
  • Chinese: “俄斯特拉發”
  • Chinese: “奥斯特拉瓦”
  • Chinese: “奧斯特拉瓦”
  • Chinese: “奧斯特拉華”
  • Chinese: “维特科维采”
  • Croatian: “Ostrava”
  • Czech: “Ostrava”
  • Czech: “Statutární město Ostrava”
  • Danish: “Ostrava”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ostrava”
  • Dutch: “Ostrau”
  • Dutch: “Ostrava”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوسترافا”
  • Erzya: “Острава”
  • Esperanto: “Ostrau”
  • Esperanto: “Ostrava”
  • Estonian: “Ostrava”
  • Faroese: “Ostrava”
  • Finnish: “Ostrava”
  • French: “Ostrau”
  • French: “Ostrava”
  • Galician: “Ostrava”
  • Georgian: “ოსტრავა”
  • German: “Mährisch-Ostrau”
  • German: “Ostrau”
  • German: “Ostrava”
  • Greek: “Οστράβα”
  • Gujarati: “ઑસ્ટ્રાવા”
  • Hebrew: “אוסטראווה מורבסקה”
  • Hebrew: “אוסטרבה”
  • Hindi: “ओस्त्रावा”
  • Hungarian: “Ostrau”
  • Hungarian: “Ostrava”
  • Icelandic: “Ostrava”
  • Ido: “Ostrava”
  • Indonesian: “Ostrava”
  • Interlingue: “Ostrava”
  • Irish: “Ostrava”
  • Italian: “Ostrau”
  • Italian: “Ostrava”
  • Japanese: “オストラヴァ”
  • Kannada: “ಒಸ್ತ್ರವ”
  • Kazakh: “Острава”
  • Kirghiz: “Острава”
  • Korean: “오스트라바”
  • Latin: “Ostravia”
  • Latvian: “Ostrava”
  • Lithuanian: “Ostrava”
  • Lombard: “Ostrava”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ostrava”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ostrava”
  • Macedonian: “Острава”
  • Malagasy: “Ostrava”
  • Malay: “Ostrava”
  • Marathi: “ओस्त्राव्हा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ostrava”
  • Mingrelian: “ოსტრავა”
  • Moksha: “Острава”
  • Mongolian: “Острава”
  • Nepali: “ओस्ट्राभा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ostrava”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ostrava”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ostrava”
  • Norwegian: “Ostrava”
  • Novial: “Ostrava”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ostrava”
  • Ossetian: “Остравæ”
  • Persian: “استراوا”
  • Piemontese: “Ostrava”
  • Polish: “Ostrawa”
  • Portuguese: “Ostrau”
  • Portuguese: “Ostrava”
  • Pushto: “اوستراوا”
  • Quechua: “Ustrawa”
  • Romanian: “Ostrau”
  • Romanian: “Ostrava”
  • Russian: “Острава”
  • Rusyn: “Острава”
  • Sardinian: “Ostrava”
  • Scots: “Ostrava”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ostrava”
  • Serbian: “Острава”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ostrava”
  • Silesian: “Ôstrawa”
  • Silesian: “Uostrawa”
  • Sinhala: “ඔස්ට්රාවා”
  • Slovak: “Ostrava”
  • Slovenian: “Ostrava”
  • Spanish: “Ostrau”
  • Spanish: “Ostrava”
  • Swahili: “Ostrava”
  • Swedish: “Ostrava”
  • Tajik: “Острава”
  • Tamil: “ஒஸ்ட்ராவா”
  • Tatar: “Острава”
  • Telugu: “ఒస్త్రవ”
  • Thai: “โอสตราวา”
  • Turkish: “Ostrava”
  • Ukrainian: “Острава”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ostrau”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ostrava”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ostrawa”
  • Urdu: “اوستراوا”
  • Uzbek: “Ostrava”
  • Venetian: “Ostrava”
  • Veps: “Ostrav”
  • Vietnamese: “Ostrava”
  • Volapük: “Ostrava”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ostrava”
  • Welsh: “Ostrava”
  • Western Frisian: “Ostrava”
  • Western Panjabi: “اوستراوا”
  • Wu Chinese: “俄斯特拉发”
  • Yue Chinese: “俄斯特拉發”
  • “Ostrava”

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