According to Czech Law no. 129/2000 (
Law on Regions), which replaced paragraph of the
Czech Constitution on higher-level territorial administrative units (
vyšší územne-správní celky), the
Czech Republic consists of thirteen regions (
kraje) and one
capital city (
hlavní mesto) with regional status since 1 January 2000. The older
seventy-three districts (
okresy, singular
okres) are still recognized and remain the seats of various branches of state administration, such as the judicial system.