It is the historical capital of Moravia and is the main city of the Hana region (an ethnographic region in central Moravia). The city is located in the Upper Moravian Basin, at the mouth of the Mill Stream and the Bystrica River into Moravia.
It is the capital of the Olomouc Region (an administrative region in the Czech Republic, the equivalent of a Polish province), as well as the archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church and the Czechoslovak Hussite Church (a religious community in the Czech Republic and Slovakia) and the eparchy (the eastern equivalent of the western diocese) of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
