North Bohemia (German: Nordböhmen, Czech: Severní Čechy), is a region in the north of the Czech Republic.
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North Bohemia roughly covers the present-day NUTS regional unit of CZ04 Severozápad and the western part of CZ05 Severovýchod. From an administrative perspective, North Bohemia is made up of the districts of Ústecký kraj (Aussiger Region), Karlovarský kraj (Karlsbader Region) and Liberecký kraj (Region Liberec).
In German language usage the term North Bohemia or Nordböhmen often refers to that part of the Sudetenland once mainly populated by Germans in North Czechia between Karlsbad in the west and the Giant Mountains in the east.
North Bohemia is divided into four landscape areas: Mácha’s Country, the Lusatian Mountains and Ještěd Ridge, Frýdlantsko and the Jizera Mountains. It is a popular tourist destination, much of which had been inaccessible until recently.[1]
North Bohemia has two protected landscape areas – the Jizera and Lusatian Mountains. The summits of the Jizera Mountains climb to heights of about 1,000 metres above sea level, and the region’s peat bogs have been opened up with interconnecting educational trails. The national nature reserve of the Jizera Mountain Beechwood Forest (Jizerskohorské bučiny) contains the largest beech woodland in the Czech Republic, covering 27 square kilometres (10 sq mi).[1]
In the administrative system of the former Czechoslovakia there was a North Bohemia province (Severočeský kraj) from 1960-1990 that consisted of the present-day region of Ústí nad Labem and parts of Liberecký kraj.