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Unincorporated Area Formation

Definition

The creation of one or more new municipalities from territory that was not previously a municipality (unincorporated area).

Implication of the change

  • year (t): No Municipalities existed in this area, it was an unincorporated area (a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation).

  • year (t + 1): Municipality A (ID 1) was created from territory that was not previously a municipality (unincorporated area). Municipality A has its own name and ID.

Visual overview

The number of municipal units involved is indicated in brackets under each description.

Example

Since 2016, three entirely new municipalities (obce) in the Czech Republic—Město Libavá (ID 500160), Kozlov (ID 500135), and Luboměř pod Strážnou (ID 500151)—have been established. Prior to 2016, none of these territories held the status of independent municipalities. Instead, they formed part of the Libavá Military Training Area (Vojenský újezd Libavá) and therefore lacked ordinary municipal self-government (Sbírka zákonů ČR, 2015).

In the Czech Republic, military training areas are not self-governing municipalities. Rather, they are administered by military authorities under the Ministry of Defence and are legally classified as unincorporated territories within the regional administrative framework, without standard municipal governance structures. Case ID: cz-uf-1-2015-2016

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Before(left) and After (right)

Before Map

References

  1. By id we mean code identifier of the municipality. ↩