Prostějov has a population of 43,408, making it the 27th largest place we list in Czechia. It is in Olomouc Region.
Prostějov holds 0.41% of Czechia's 10,527,781 people. Prague, the largest place we list there, is 27 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 48,258, a fall of 10%.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Jablonec nad Nisou | Liberec Region | 46,209 |
| Karlovy Vary | Carlsbad Region | 45,500 |
| Mladá Boleslav | Central Bohemia | 43,684 |
| Přerov | Olomouc Region | 40,906 |
| Třinec | Moravian-Silesian Region | 38,415 |
| Česká Lípa | Liberec Region | 36,815 |
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.