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Mladá Boleslav

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Mladá Boleslav

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town in Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic

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Mladá Boleslav is a statutory city and municipality in the Czech Republic, situated within the Mladá Boleslav District. The city’s earliest written record dates to 1130. It shares borders with Bítouchov, Josefův Důl, Vinařice, and Hrdlořezy, and contains the administrative territorial entities of Čejetice, Jemníky, and Podchlumí. The area is 28.903499 square units, with an elevation above sea level of 241 meters.

The population is recorded as 47,346. Mladá Boleslav has received the Fairtrade Town award. It is twinned with Dieburg, King's Lynn, Pezinok, and Vantaa. The city uses the postal code 293 01 and the licence plate code S. Its time zone is UTC+01:00 and UTC+02:00.

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Place details

Locality
Mladá Boleslav
Region
Central Bohemia
Country
Česko
Population
43,684
Timezone
Europe/Prague

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Air quality

50US AQIGood
PM2.5
11.8 µg/m³
PM10
16.2 µg/m³
As of 2026-08-11 02:00 · Open-Meteo

Travel guide

Understand

thumb|Mladá Boleslav Castle The castle, founded in the second half of the 10th century by Prince Boleslav the Pious, formed the core of the city's development. In the 16th century, Mladá Boleslav became a center for the Bohemian Brothers, who founded a bishopric here, but re-Catholicization took place as early as the 17th century. With industrialization, automobile manufacturing also developed (today Škoda Auto as, now part of the VW Group). The city has around 44,500 inhabitants (2019).

See

— 10 km north, with the associated Capuchin convent, owned by the Waldstein family until 1945. Mid-16th century town hall and the council chamber on the 1st floor with a vault resting on a column. The Jewish cemetery is also interesting

Do

Football: FK Mladá Boleslav play soccer in Fortuna or First League, the top tier. Their Lokotrans Arena (capacity 5000) is 1 km north of town centre.

Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Encyclopedic overview

Mladá Boleslav ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈmladaː ˈbolɛslaf]; German: Jungbunzlau) is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 48,000 inhabitants. It lies on the left bank of the Jizera River.

Mladá Boleslav is the second most populated city in the region. It is a major centre of the Czech automotive industry thanks to the Škoda Auto company and therefore the centre of Czech industry as a whole. The city is also a centre of technical education, represented by Škoda Auto University and Secondary Industrial School.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mladá Boleslav” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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