Quick information

Area:
214 km² 

Population: 
294,446

Population: 
5 million

Working population:
64%

Total area of the city

Population of the city including foreigners

Population within 100 km radius of the city

People in production age
(15-64 years)

Location:

Transport:
International Airport

Network connection:

Leoš Janáček International Airport
(25 km from the city centre)

• The largest regional airport in the Czech Republic
• The country´s second longest runway (3,500 x 63m)
• Regular travel links to London, Warsaw
  and many charter flights
• Cargo lines to Cologne

The D1 highway

• part of TEN's Multiple Mode Corridor No. VI,
• a north-south link from the Czech-Polish border, through Ostrava to the D1  highway to Brno
• joined up with the Polish A1 motorway through  Katowice – Gdaňsk and on to Helsinki
  
  

Important railway hub for both regional and international trains

• national Corridor II line (the basis of one of the most
  important north-south railway links in the EU)
  
  

Education:
3 universities

 
21,117

 4,737

8

• VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava
• The University of Ostrava
• University of Entrepreneurship and Law

Total number of university students (2020)

Total number of university graduates (2020)

Total number of foreign-language schools
and foreigner-friendly schools

Business entities by main economic activity  

 Largest employers

 The list of the largest employers in Ostrava including the number of their employees find HERE.