The Jihlava agglomeration () is the agglomeration of the city of

Jihlava Jihlava (; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 55,000 inhabitants. Jihlava is the capital of the Vysočina Region, situated on the Jihlava (river), Jihlava River on the historical border between Moravia and Bohemia. Historically, Jihla ...

and its surroundings in the

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. It was defined in 2020 as a tool for drawing money from the

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and is valid in 2021–2027. The agglomeration has a population of about 98,000, which makes it the least populated agglomeration in the country.

Definition

The Jihlava agglomeration was defined in 2020 by the Ministry of Regional Development of the Czech Republic for the purposes of the so-called Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI), which is a tool for drawing money from the

. The territory was defined on the basis of a coefficient composed of three methods: integrated system of centres (i.e. delineation of commuting flows based on mobile operator data from 2019), time spent in core cities (based on mobile operator data from 2019) and residential suburbanization zones (based on statistics of realized housing construction and directional migration from the core of the agglomeration to suburban municipalities in the period 2009–2016). The scope of the territory is valid for the period 2021–2027.

Municipalities

The agglomeration includes 56

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References

{{Reflist Urban areas in the Czech Republic Vysočina Region