The South Bohemian Region (Czech: Jihočeský kraj) is an administrative unit (kraj) of the Czech Republic, located mostly in the southern part of its historical land of Bohemia, with a small part in southwestern Moravia.

Due to its geographical location and natural surroundings the region belongs to the first settlements that appeared in the distant past.

Over the past centuries, the South Bohemian region has been known for fishpond cultivation and forestry.

This encompassed those districts of South Bohemia (Kaplitz und Krumau) that had long been settled by Germans.

[4] This was reversed after the Second World War and the German-speaking population that had lived in the area since the Middle Ages[5] was expelled.

According to the 2011 census, 20.6% of inhabitants in the region believe in God (however, almost half of the people did not answer this question).

[8] Other significant towns are: Vimperk, Dačice, Kaplice, Soběslav, Sezimovo Ústí, Vodňany, Blatná, Veselí nad Lužnicí, Bechyně and Protivín.

[11] A big part of the Šumava National Park is situated in South Bohemia.

[citation needed] The climate in South Bohemia is of a transitional Central European type.

In 2011, the business sector in the South Bohemian Region comprises 159,000 entities, 114,000 of which were sole traders.

There are more than 300 thousand people employed in the region, whereof 31% in industry, 13% in trade and 10% in construction sector.

Scientific work is also part of the activities of the University of South Bohemia (Czech: Jihočeská univerzita) with its headquarters in České Budějovice and Jindřichův Hradec.

Approximately 11% of the national agricultural production is produced in the South Bohemian Region.

The local folk bricklayer masters Martin Paták and František Šoch created a new type of South Bohemian farmhouse with an ornate frontispiece in the middle of the 19th century.

A typical building of this style is a massive rustic farmhouse with two richly decorated frontispieces, which are joined by an arched gate with small doors.