Czechia Regions

Czechia is a country of old lands, Bohemia in the west, Moravia in the east and a sliver of Silesia in the north east, and its regions follow none of them exactly. There are thirteen regions, called kraje, and Prague, which is a region of its own and sits in the middle of the largest of them.

The quiz: Name to place, on the map
Grouped by: The eight cohesion regions, from the Southwest to Moravia-Silesia
In the game: 14 regions

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What you are looking at

The thirteen kraje and the capital, drawn at today's borders. Most are named for their seat: Plzeň, Liberec, Olomouc, Zlín. The exceptions are the ones named for a direction or a landscape, such as Central Bohemia, South Bohemia and Vysočina, the Highlands, which is the one region that straddles the old Bohemian and Moravian border.

Prague is a small shape wrapped on every side by Central Bohemia, so it takes a tap area wider than its outline. Central Bohemia is the ring that holds it, and its seat is Prague too.

The groups are the eight cohesion regions, the only official grouping above the kraje. Two of them are a single region: Prague and Moravia-Silesia. The kraje are the districts of Czechia Districts joined up, so the borders of the two maps match exactly.

How to place one

Start with the west. Bohemia is the western two thirds of the country: Karlovy Vary and Plzeň on the German border, Ústí nad Labem across the north.
Find the capital's ring. Prague in the middle of the map, Central Bohemia all the way round it.
Cross to Moravia. South Moravia is the south east corner, Olomouc and Zlín are the two to its north, and Moravia-Silesia is the far north east tip.
Place Vysočina last. It is the region between the two halves, which makes it the one to find once the others are fixed.

Every region, by cohesion region

Southwest (South Bohemia, Plzeň)2 regions: Plzeň, South Bohemia
Northwest (Karlovy Vary, Ústí)2 regions: Karlovy Vary, Ústí nad Labem
Northeast (Liberec, Hradec Králové, Pardubice)3 regions: Hradec Králové, Liberec, Pardubice
Central Bohemia1 region: Central Bohemia
Southeast (Vysočina, South Moravia)2 regions: South Moravia, Vysočina
Central Moravia (Olomouc, Zlín)2 regions: Olomouc, Zlín
Moravia-Silesia1 region: Moravia-Silesia
Prague1 region: Prague

Worked examples

Prague

The capital that is its own region

Prague is a city and a region at once, and the smallest on the map by a wide margin. It sits inside Central Bohemia, which is why it is hard to hit without the tap area.

Moravia-Silesia

The far north east

Moravia-Silesia is the region around Ostrava, at the tip of the country between Poland and Slovakia. It holds the Czech part of Silesia and a corner of Moravia, and it is the most industrial region on the map.