It also shares a 208 km long international border with Polish Lower Silesian Voivodeship in the north and the east.

[3] As of January 2019, the Hradec Králové Region had 551,021 inhabitants, which was 5.2% of the total population of the Czech Republic.

Krkonoše and Orlické mountains which are situated in the northern and northeastern part of the region pass to fertile Elbe lowland.

The region is part of the so-called Black Triangle, an area of heavily industrialization and environmental damage on the three-way border of Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic.

[7] The industry is concentrated in big towns while the agriculture in the Elbe lowland (Czech: Polabí).

In 2012, the gross domestic product of Hradec Králové Region accounted for about 4.5% of the total GDP of the Czech Republic.

Region's GDP per capita amounted to 85.7% of national average and ranked as the fourth highest.

Hereof, the largest proportion (31.1%) worked in manufacturing, followed by trade and repair of personal and household goods (12.2%), health and social care (7.9%), construction (7.3%), public administration and defence (6.5%), transportation and storage (5.9%), etc.

In 2012, the 954 statistically monitored collective accommodation establishments in the region reported 887,000 guests, including about 213,000 foreigners coming especially from Germany, Poland and the Netherlands.