title: Velká Lhota
text: # Velká Lhota
  
  Velká Lhota is a municipality and village in Vsetín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants.
  
  Velká Lhota lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) north of Vsetín, 36 km (22 mi) north-east of Zlín, and 270 km (170 mi) east of Prague.
  
  ## Administrative parts
  
  The village of Malá Lhota is an administrative part of Velká Lhota.
  
  ## Notable people
  
  * Jan Karafiát (1846–1929), children's book writer; lived and worked here in 1875–1895
  