Greenest Ostrava districts

Largest share of parks and forests: Radvanice a Bartovice (42 %), then Petřkovice and Stará Bělá. 23 districts ranked by the green areas in OpenStreetMap.

How we calculate it

Parks (from 0.2 ha), forests and woods (from 1 ha) as a share of the district’s area, by the green areas in OpenStreetMap; overlapping areas count once.

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  1. 2 Petřkovice 33 % parks and forests Petřkovice on the map
  2. 3 Stará Bělá 32 % parks and forests Stará Bělá on the map
  3. 4. Plesná 28 % parks and forests Plesná on the map
  4. 5. Hošťálkovice 28 % parks and forests Hošťálkovice on the map
  5. 6. Slezská Ostrava 27 % parks and forests Slezská Ostrava on the map
  6. 7. Michálkovice 27 % parks and forests Michálkovice on the map
  7. 8. Svinov 25 % parks and forests Svinov on the map
  8. 9. Nová Ves 25 % parks and forests Nová Ves on the map
  9. 10. Nová Bělá 24 % parks and forests Nová Bělá on the map
  10. 11. Proskovice 21 % parks and forests Proskovice on the map
  11. 12. Lhotka 21 % parks and forests Lhotka on the map
  12. 13. Krásné Pole 20 % parks and forests Krásné Pole on the map
  13. 14. Třebovice 16 % parks and forests Třebovice on the map
  14. 16. Poruba 14 % parks and forests Poruba on the map
  15. 17. Hrabová 13 % parks and forests Hrabová on the map
  16. 18. Ostrava-Jih 13 % parks and forests Ostrava-Jih on the map
  17. 20. Martinov 12 % parks and forests Martinov on the map
  18. 21. Polanka nad Odrou 10 % parks and forests Polanka nad Odrou on the map
  19. 22. Vítkovice 8 % parks and forests Vítkovice on the map
  20. 23. Pustkovec 6 % parks and forests Pustkovec on the map
Photo: Petr Štefek

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