Tachov District () is a

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in the

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of the

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. Its capital is the town of

Tachov Tachov (; ) is a town in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 14,000 inhabitants. It lies on the Mže River. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument zone. Administrative division Tachov ...

Administrative division

Tachov District is divided into two administrative districts of municipalities with extended competence: Tachov and Stříbro.

List of municipalities

Towns are marked in bold and market towns in ''italics'': Benešovice - Bezdružice - Bor - Brod nad Tichou -

Broumov Broumov (; ) is a town in Náchod District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 7,100 inhabitants. There are three important historic buildings, protected as national cultural monuments: the Benedictine monastery, the ...

- Částkov - Cebiv - Černošín - '' Chodová Planá'' - Chodský Újezd - Ctiboř - Dlouhý Újezd - Erpužice -

Halže Halže () is a municipality and village in Tachov District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,100 inhabitants. Administrative division Halže consists of four municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 ce ...

- Horní Kozolupy - Hošťka - Kladruby - Kočov - Kokašice -

Konstantinovy Lázně Konstantinovy Lázně () is a spa municipality and village in Tachov District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 900 inhabitants. Administrative division Konstantinovy Lázně consists of eight municipal parts (in brackets po ...

- Kostelec - Kšice - Lesná - Lestkov - Lom u Tachova - Milíře - Obora - Olbramov - Ošelín - Planá - Přimda - Prostiboř - Rozvadov - Skapce - Staré Sedliště - Staré Sedlo - '' Stráž'' -

Stříbro Stříbro (; ) is a town in Tachov District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 8,100 inhabitants. The historic town centre with the Renaissance Stříbro bridge is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech ...

- Studánka - Sulislav -

Svojšín Svojšín () is a municipality and village in Tachov District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants. Svojšín lies approximately east of Tachov, west of Plzeň, and west of Prague Prague ( ; ) is th ...

- Sytno -

- Tisová - Třemešné - Trpísty - Únehle - Vranov - Záchlumí - Zadní Chodov - Zhoř

Geography

Tachov District borders Germany in the west. The terrain is hilly and along the state border, the landscape is mountainous. The territory extends into four geomorphological mesoregions: Plasy Uplands (most of the territory), Upper Palatine Forest (west), Upper Palatine Forest Foothills (a strip along the Upper Palatine Forest) and Teplá Highlands (northeast). The highest point of the district is the mountain Havran in Lesná with an elevation of . The lowest point is the Hracholusky Reservoir in Erpužice 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 43.6% of the district's area. The only important river is the Mže, which flows across the district from west to east and forms a deep valley. Its longest tributary is the Úhlavka. The central part of the territory is rich in ponds. There are also two reservoirs, Lučina and partly Hracholusky. There are two protected landscape areas: the northern half of Český les, and the southernmost part of Slavkovský les.

Demographics

Most populated municipalities

Economy

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

Transport

The D5 motorway (part of the European route E50) from

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 ...

Plzeň Plzeň (), also known in English and German as Pilsen (), is a city in the Czech Republic. It is the Statutory city (Czech Republic), fourth most populous city in the Czech Republic with about 188,000 inhabitants. It is located about west of P ...

and the Czech-German border passes through the district.

Sights

The most important monuments in the district, protected as national cultural monuments, are: * Přimda Castle *Slavic gord and burial mound in Bezemín * Kladruby Monastery *Hradišťský kopec gord in Okrouhlé Hradiště * Riding hall in Světce The best-preserved settlements, protected as monument zones, are: * Bor * Planá *

* Chodský Újezd * Horní Jadruž * Pačín * Prostiboř * Zadní Chodov The most visited tourist destinations are the Kladruby Monastery and Přimda Castle.

Notable people

References

External links

Tachov District
– profile on the Czech Statistical Office website {{authority control Districts of the Plzeň Region