Bílá Hlína is a municipality and village in

Mladá Boleslav District Mladá Boleslav District ( cs, okres Mladá Boleslav) is a district (''okres'') within Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the city of Mladá Boleslav. Complete list of municipalities Bakov nad Jizerou - Bělá pod Bezd ...

in the

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of the

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. It has about 100 inhabitants.

Etymology

The name means "white clay" and is derived from the white clay soil where the village was founded.

Geography

Bílá Hlína is located about west of

Mladá Boleslav Mladá Boleslav (; german: Jungbunzlau) is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 42,000 inhabitants. Mladá Boleslav is the second most populated city in the region and a major centre of the Czech automotive ind ...

and northeast of

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. It lies in the

Jizera Table The Jizera Table ( cs, Jizerská tabule) is a plateau and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located mostly in the Central Bohemian Region, northeast of Prague. Geomorphology The Jizera Table is a mesoregion of the Centra ...

. Most of the municipal territory is formed by the Klokočka deer park.

History

Bílá Hlína was founded in 1712 and belongs to the youngest villages in the region.

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