The first table shows a list of the administrative districts of municipalities with extended powers and the municipalities with authorized municipal office established in the region. It gives numbers of municipalities belonging to administrative districts, areas of the districts, and population. The population derived from the results of the Population and Housing Census held as at 1 March 2001 (PHC 2001) refers to the number of persons recorded for permanent residence in a municipality of an administrative district. Since 2001 this number has been also including foreigners with long-term stay on the territory concerned. The data are converted to correspond to the territorial structure in force as at 31 December 2004.

The other tables give selected data on the administrative districts of municipalities with extended powers obtained by summarizing data on individual municipalities. The figures on the area of the types of land are provided by the Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre. The population and vital statistics were obtained from notifications of birth, death and migration and the age distribution was derived from demographic balance. The numbers of job applicants were calculated from the information contained in the database of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the CR. The unemployment rate was calculated as the ratio of the number of job applicants as at 31 December of the year concerned and the number of economically active persons established by the Population and Housing Census 2001. The information on the facilities in the municipalities was acquired by a territorial method (including detached workplaces) disregarding the head office of the operator. The municipality is considered to be equipped with the facilities, if it has them in at least one of its parts. The number of businesses includes businesses which have their head offices on the territory concerned (not only their plants) and are active (the CZSO has no information on their inactivity). The housing construction data (on dwellings completed and dwellings taken out of use) come from statistical reports supplied by planning and building control authorities.

A town is a municipality which has been granted the status of town pursuant to the Act on Municipalities. The tables give overviews on towns in regions, in alphabetical order. Table 12-15 is a new table and shows selected data on regional towns of the Czech Republic, arranged according to population.

The basic demographic data covering last three years are given for each of the towns. The data are obtained from notifications of births, deaths and migration. Listed are also the area of towns by type of land, the age distribution of population in towns, selected types of technical and public infrastructure of towns (including detached workplaces), numbers of enterprises having their head offices in the towns, and numbers of completed dwellings and dwellings taken out of use. Most of these data (and a number of others) are included in the database on town and municipal statistics.

A municipality refers to a basic territorial self-governing community of citizens. It makes up a territorial unit delimitated by borders. Table 12-16 lists selected data by size group of municipalities, and Table 12-17 gives selected data on individual municipalities pooled together to make administrative districts of municipalities with extended powers. This territorial structure has been in force since 1 January 2003. The figures in brackets following the name of an administrative district is an official numerical code corresponding to the CZSO codebook.