The territorial structure si valid as at 1 January

The territorial structure si valid as at 1 January 2008 and the figures refer to 2006 unless stated otherwise.

Region, district, administrative districts of municipalities, minucipality and the basic territorial units are the standard units of the territorial identification which name and code are given by statistical nomenclatures and Nomenclatura of Territorial Units for Statistics (CZ-NUTS) obtainded from the Territorial Identification Register administrated by the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO). The nomenclature is an arranged list of codes and meanings assigned to them. Nomenclatures are part of the statistical information system and are updated regularly. Czech version is at web pages www.czso.cz.

Municipality is a basic territorial self-governing community of citizens; it forms territorial unit defined by the community borders. It has one or more cadastral territories. It is a public corporation, has its own property and acts in its own name in legal relations assuming responsibilities stemming from these relations. For some, also statistical purposes, military districts are also considered as municipalities. There were 448 municipalities in the Královéhradecký Region on 1 January 2008. There are the towns highlighted by bold types in the tables. The town with a special statute - statutory town - is Hradec Králové.

Code of municipality is code from Nomenclature of municipalities of the Czech Republic, iis number is only one within Czech Republic.

Name of municipality.is name from Nomenclature of municipalities of the Czech Republic, its name is only one name within district.

Municipality part can be defined in two ways. Given the fact that it is a unit of the territorial division of the country, which appears on the official list of municipalities and municipality parts, (i.e. in the Statistical Lexicon of Municipalities of the Czech Republic 2005). Unless municipality is divided into parts, it is considered as one municipality part for the needs of statistics. From the subject-matter point of view, however, the municipality part is composed of a group of houses having a common name and land-registry numbers from one numerical series.

Basic territorial unit (ZUJ) is almost the same as Code of municipality.

Municipalities with authorized municipal office (MAMO) are defined by Act No 314/2002 Coll. of 13 June 2002. Municipalities are assigned to the municipalities with extended powers by the Ministry of the Interior’s Decree No 388/2004 of 24 June 2004 amending Decree No 388/2002 Coll. on establishment of ‘administrative districts of municipalities with authorized municipal office’ and ‘administrative districts of municipalities with extended powers. Code of MAMO is municipality with authorized municipal office where its number is code from Nomenclature of municipalities with authorized municipal office (by CZSO).

Municipalities with extended powers (MEP) are defined by Act No 314/2002 Coll. of 13 June 2002. Municipalities are assigned to the municipalities with extended powers by the Ministry of the Interior’s Decree No 388/2004 of 24 June 2004 amending Decree No 388/2002 Coll. on establishment of ‘administrative districts of municipalities with extended powers’ and ‘administrative districts of municipalities with extended powers. Code of MEP is municipality with extended powers where its number is code from Nomenclature of municipalities with extended powers (by CZSO).

District is given by Decree in Coll. Based on the Decree No. 513/2006 Coll., witch modifies the Decree No. 564/2002 coll., on districts of the Czech Republic, were municipalitie shifted between the districts as at 1 January 2007.

Region is according to Act No. 347/1997 Coll., on the Establishment of Higher Terrritorial Slef-governing Units new regional territorial units since 1 January 2000. On 1 January 2005 by Act No. 387/2004 Coll. were the territory of the Vysočina Region, Jihomoravský Region, Moravskoslezský Region and Olomoucký Region partially changed.

Data sources:
o Database of municipalities made by CZSO, years 2006, 2005, 2004
o Regional statistical publications (Statistical yearbook of the Královéhradecký region 2007 and data series
o Demographical statistic, 2006
o Business Ragister, 2006

The data on districts, administrative districts and size groups of municipalities by population were obtained by summarizing data on individual municipalities.

Registered unemployment rate is the ratio (%) of registered job applicants to the labour force available (i.e. the employed persons established by the LFSS plus registered job applicants) for region and districts.

The numbers of job applicants were calculated from the information contained in the database of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the CR. The unemployment rate for administrative districts, size groups and municipalities was calculated as the ratio of the number of job applicants as at 31 December of the year concerned and the number of economically active persons established by the Population and Housing Census 2001.

Actual contacts on Municipality Authorities were prepared with cooperation of Regional Office in Hradec Králové.

Catalogue of publications 2008 informs obout publications prepared by Regional Analyses and Information Services Section Hradec Králové for year 2008 with anotation and territorial breakdown of data.

Overview of new towns and townlets as at 1January 2008 shows also basic territorial units.

There are maps with settlement and with towns and townlets in Královéhradecký Region whitch have this statute as at 1 January 2008 in publications.

13-5217-07 Municipalities of the Královéhradecký region
13-5201-07 Statistical yearbook of the Královéhradecký region 2007
13-5202-07 Statistical Bulletin of the Královéhradecký region
1301-07 Population of Municipalities of the Czech Republic, 1 January 2007
1302-07 Small Lexikon of CR Municipalities 2007
1375-07 Towns and Townships in the CR
4030-07 Demographic Yearbook of Administrative Territories of Municipalities with Extended Powers 1995 - 2006
4018-07 Demographfic Yearbook of Selected Towns of the CR 1991-2006
4116-07 Statistical Lexicon of Municipalities 2007
4128-04 Retrospective Lexicon of Municipalities of the Czech Republic
1303-07 Districts of the Czech Republic 2006
1304-07 Regions of the Czech Republic 2006

Other information is published on the CZSO web pages:

www.hradeckralove.czso.cz
http://vdb.czso.cz/vdb/en/index.jsp
www.czso.cz/lexikon/mos_vdb.nsf/index
www.czso.cz/eng/redakce.nsf/i/regions_towns

List of using abbreviations