Vsetín District () is a

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in the

Zlín Region Zlín Region () is an administrative unit () of the Czech Republic, located in the south-eastern part of the historical region of Moravia. It is named after its capital Zlín. Together with the Olomouc Region it forms a cohesion area of Central M ...

of the

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. Its capital is the town of

Vsetín Vsetín () is a town in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 25,000 inhabitants. Originally a small town, Vsetín has become an important centre of industrial, economic, cultural and sports life during the 20th century. Administ ...

Administrative division

Vsetín District is divided into three administrative districts of municipalities with extended competence: Vsetín, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm and Valašské Meziříčí.

List of municipalities

Towns are marked in bold and market towns in ''italics'': Branky - Bystřička - Choryně - Dolní Bečva - Francova Lhota - Halenkov - Horní Bečva - Horní Lideč - Hošťálková - Hovězí - Huslenky - Hutisko-Solanec - Jablůnka - Janová - Jarcová - Karolinka - Kateřinice - Kelč - Kladeruby - Krhová - Kunovice - Lačnov - Leskovec - Lešná - Lhota u Vsetína - Lidečko -

Liptál Liptál is a municipality and village in Vsetín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,600 inhabitants. Liptál lies approximately south-west of Vsetín, east of Zlín, and east of Prague Prague ( ; ) is ...

- Loučka - Lužná -

Malá Bystřice Malá Bystřice is a municipality and village in Vsetín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants. Malá Bystřice lies approximately north-east of Vsetín, north-east of Zlín, and east of Prague ...

- Mikulůvka - '' Nový Hrozenkov'' - Oznice - Podolí -

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- Poličná - Pozděchov - Prlov - Prostřední Bečva - Pržno - Ratiboř -

Rožnov pod Radhoštěm Rožnov pod Radhoštěm (; ) is a town in Vsetín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 16,000 inhabitants. Geography Rožnov pod Radhoštěm is located about northeast of Vsetín and south of Ostrava. It lies in the ...

- Růžďka - Seninka - Střelná - Střítež nad Bečvou - Ústí -

Valašská Bystřice Valašská Bystřice is a municipality and village in Vsetín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,200 inhabitants. Etymology The name Bystřice is derived from the watercourse that flows through the village (original ...

- Valašská Polanka - Valašská Senice -

Valašské Meziříčí Valašské Meziříčí (; ) is a town in Vsetín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 23,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monum ...

- Velká Lhota -

Velké Karlovice Velké Karlovice is a municipality and village in Vsetín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,400 inhabitants. The municipality lies on the Vsetínská Bečva River. Administrative division Velké Karlovice consists ...

- Vidče - Vigantice -

- Zašová - Zděchov - Zubří

Geography

Vsetín District borders Slovakia in the southeast. The terrain is hilly to mountainous and except in the northwest, most of the landscape is forested. The territory extends into seven geomorphological mesoregions:

Hostýn-Vsetín Mountains Hostýn-Vsetín Mountains () is a mountain range in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. The mountains are densely forested mainly by secondary spruce A spruce is a tree of the genus ''Picea'' ( ), a genus of about 40 species of conifer ...

(most of the territory), Maple Mountains (southeast),

Vizovice Highlands The Vizovice Highlands () are highlands and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located in the Zlín and South Moravian regions. It is named after the town of Vizovice. Geomorphology The Vizovice Highlands are a mesoregi ...

(southwest), Rožnov Furrow (a strip in the north), Moravian-Silesian Beskids (north), Moravian-Silesian Foothills (northwest), and

White Carpathians The White Carpathians (; ; ) are a mountain range on the border of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, part of the Carpathians. They are part of the macroregion of Slovak-Moravian Carpathians, stretching from the Váh river and the Little Carpat ...

(a small part in the south). The highest point of the district and of the entire Zlín Region is the mountain Čertův mlýn in Prostřední Bečva with an elevation of . The lowest point of the district is the river bed of the Bečva in Kelč at . From the total district area of ,

agricultural land Agricultural land is typically land ''devoted to'' agriculture, the systematic and controlled use of other organism, forms of lifeparticularly the rearing of livestock and production of cropsto produce food for humans. It is generally synonymous ...

occupies , forests occupy , and water area occupies . Forests cover 54.9% of the district's area. The most important rivers of the district are the

Vsetínská Bečva The Vsetínská Bečva (also called Horní Bečva; , ''Obere Betsch'') is a river in the Czech Republic. It flows through the Zlín Region. It is the upper course of the Bečva, but usually it is considered a separate river. Until its confluence w ...

and

Rožnovská Bečva The Rožnovská Bečva is a river in the Czech Republic, the secondary source river of the Bečva River. It flows through the Zlín Region. It is long. Etymology The name Bečva is derived from the old Czech words ''bek'', ''beč'' (i.e. 'cry'), ...

, which join in Valašské Meziříčí and create the

Bečva The Bečva (; , ''Betsch'') is a river in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Morava River. It flows through the Olomouc and Zlín regions. It is formed by the confluence of the Vsetínská Bečva and Rožnovská Bečva rivers. Together ...

River. The area is poor in bodies of water. The only notable bodies of water is are the Karolinka and Bystřička reservoirs. The eastern half of the district is protected within the Beskydy Protected Landscape Area.

Demographics

Most populated municipalities

Economy

The largest employers with headquarters in Vsetín District and at least 500 employees are:

Transport

There are no motorways passing through the district. The most important road is the I/35 (part of the

European route E442 European route E 442 is part of the international E-road network. Route * ** E48, E49 Karlovy Vary ** E55 Teplice ** E65 Turnov ** E67 Hradec Králové ** E462 Olomouc * ** E50, E75 Žilina Žilina (; ; ; ; Names of Eur ...

from

Olomouc Olomouc (; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 103,000 inhabitants, making it the Statutory city (Czech Republic), sixth largest city in the country. It is the administrative centre of the Olomouc Region. Located on the Morava (rive ...

to the Czech-Slovak border.

Sights

The most important monuments in the district, protected as national cultural monuments, are: * Pustevny area * Wallachian Open Air Museum *Evangelical church in Velká Lhota *

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' residence in

The best-preserved settlements, protected as monument zones, are: * Kelč *

* Huslenky-Kychová *

-Podťaté * Zděchov The most visited tourist destination is the Wallachian Open Air Museum in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm.

Notable people

References

External links

Vsetín District
– profile on the Czech Statistical Office website {{DEFAULTSORT:Vsetin District Districts of the Zlín Region