Čakovice (German ''Tschakowitz'') is a municipal district (''městská část'') in
Prague
Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its P ...
. It is located in the north-eastern part of the city. As of 2021, there were 11,984 inhabitants living in Čakovice. The municipal district consists of three cadastral areas (''katastrální území''): Čakovice,
Miškovice and
Třeboradice.
The Čakovice cadastre has an area of 3.83 km
2 and a population of about 8,000 inhabitants.
The first written record of Čakovice is from the 11th century. The town became part of Prague in 1968.
Demographics
Sport
TJ Avia Čakovice are a football team that play at the
Letňa Avia, off Ke Stadionu 705. In 1971, the Victoria Speedway Club Praha began racing
motorcycle speedway
Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...
at the venue, originally called Zizkov Prague before taking the name AMK Čakovice in the late 1970s. The venue also hosted a final round of the Czechoslovak Individual Championship eight times from 1973 to 1983.
References
External links
Praha-Čakovice - Official homepage
Districts of Prague
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