Czechia has the most municipalities per capita in Europe, three times as many as Austria
Next Friday and Saturday, councils will be elected in 6,251 Czech municipalities. Half of them have fewer than 500 inhabitants; in Austria, only one municipality in twenty is that small. Running the smallest municipalities costs almost twice as much per inhabitant, and in nearly half of them only a single list of candidates is standing. Why Czechia has so many municipalities, and what happened when Austria merged its own.
10/2/2026
