Ostrava metropolitan area
Ostrava metropolitan area
Ostravská metropolitní oblast | |
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Urban area | |
Skyline of Ostrava | |
| Coordinates: 49°50′N 18°17′E / 49.833°N 18.283°E | |
| Country | Czechia |
| Region | Moravia-Silesia |
| Largest city | Ostrava |
| Area | |
| • Metro | 2,710 km2 (1,050 sq mi) |
| Population (2024) | |
| • Metro | 970,189 |
| • Metro density | 360/km2 (930/sq mi) |
| GDP | |
| • Metro | €24.329 billion (2022) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| Website | itiostravsko |
The Ostrava metropolitan area (Czech: Ostravská metropolitní oblast) is the metropolitan area with the city of Ostrava in the Czech Republic at its center. The Ostrava urban area is the largest urban area in the metropolitan area with a population of 365,000. The metropolitan area has over 81% of the population of the Moravian-Silesian Region. The population of the metropolitan area is 970,189 as of 2024. An alternative definition, the Eurostat Larger Urban Zone, lists a population of 1,153,876. The Ostrava metropolitan area is sometimes combined with the Katowice metropolitan area to form a wider metropolitan area with a population of 5,008,000 (2015). The metropolitan area has 172 municipalities.
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 685,680 | — |
| 1961 | 826,049 | +20.5% |
| 1970 | 960,213 | +16.2% |
| 1980 | 1,032,465 | +7.5% |
| 1991 | 1,049,794 | +1.7% |
| 2001 | 1,034,314 | −1.5% |
| 2011 | 985,696 | −4.7% |
| 2021 | 949,291 | −3.7% |
| Source: Censuses | ||