Zlin is a city in the Czech Republic, seat of the Zlin Region, about 70 kilometers east of Brno on the Drevnice River in the Vizovice Highlands. First documented in 1322, it was renamed Gottwaldov after Czechoslovak communist president Klement Gottwald from 1949 to 1989, reverting to Zlin on 1 January 1990, and had around 74,917 inhabitants in 2026 data. The modern city's development is tied to the Bata Shoes Company, founded in 1894 by Tomas Bata, whose social and urban development scheme built Zlin into a functionalist industrial city unique in Europe between 1923 and 1938, and much of the city is protected today as an urban monument zone for its architectural and planning value.
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Elevation (m) Latitude49.233056 degrees north 2 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Zlin (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationInfobox: population_totalQuote, Infobox: population_total
74917
2. Zlin (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 49.233056, longitude 17.666944
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 230 m
P2046 (area)
area 102.8261 sq km
P571 (inception)
inception 1322
View the Source3. GeoNames: Zlín - GeoNames
GeoNamesPlace record, elevationQuote, Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 229 m
4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 49.25, 17.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 49.25, 17.75
49.25 17.75 Dfb
5. GeoNames: Zlín - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3061370Quote, cities500 record 3061370
49.22645 17.67065 P PPLA CZ 90 0724 585068 72973 229 Europe/Prague
Zlin (Wikipedia)
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