Abstract
The Historical Population Atlas of the Czech lands uses historical statistical data to outline the position of social geographers on spatial aspects of population development on the territory of the Czech Republic today. The goal of the authorial team was to present time series of basic population statistical indicators from the origins of the independent state, as documented in the 1921 census, up to the present, which is recorded by maps from recent population censes.
The atlas is the culmination of applied research NAKI under the project Disclosure of Historical Spatial and Statistical Data in GIS Environment. The maps are the fi rst in this country to use spatial layers corresponding to borders relevant to the various census years.
The atlas builds on knowledge from many cartographic works published in the course of the twentieth century. Its form and approach were inspired by the Population Atlas of Slovakia and both Czechoslovak national atlases consider some evolutionary aspects of population distribution, dynamics and structure.