Bavaria

Bavaria is the largest federal state of , situated in the south-east of the country. Spanning an area of 70,540 km² with 13.2 million inhabitants, it extends from the middle German hills down into the .
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The is an administrative region in the east of Bavaria, Germany.

Bavaria

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Latitude of center
48.9468° or 48° 56′ 48″ north
Longitude of center
11.4039° or 11° 24′ 14″ east
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2951839
Wiki­data ID
Q980

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Bavaria” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Beiere”
  • Albanian: “Bavaria”
  • Amharic: “ባቫሪያ”
  • Arabic: “بافاريا الحرة”
  • Arabic: “بافاريا”
  • Arabic: “بايرن”
  • Arabic: “بايرين”
  • Arabic: “بفاريا”
  • Arabic: “ولاية بافاريا الحرة”
  • Arabic: “ولاية بافاريا”
  • Arabic: “ولاية بايرن”
  • Aragonese: “Bavera”
  • Armenian: “Բավարիա”
  • Arpitan: “Baviére”
  • Asturian: “Baviera”
  • Asturian: “Estáu Llibre de Baviera”
  • Aymara: “Bayern suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bavariya”
  • Balinese: “Bayern”
  • Bashkir: “Бавария”
  • Basque: “Bavaria”
  • Bavarian: “Bayern”
  • Bavarian: “Boarn”
  • Bavarian: “Freistoot Boarn”
  • Belarusian: “Баварыя”
  • Bengali: “বাভারিয়া”
  • Bengali: “বায়ার্ন”
  • Bosnian: “Bavarska”
  • Breton: “Bavaria”
  • Bulgarian: “Бавария”
  • Burmese: “ဘာဗေးရီးယားပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Baviera”
  • Cebuano: “Bavaria”
  • Central Kurdish: “باڤاریا”
  • Chavacano: “Baviera”
  • Chechen: “Бавари”
  • Chinese: “巴伐利亚”
  • Chinese: “巴伐利亚州”
  • Chinese: “巴伐利亚自由州”
  • Chinese: “巴伐利亞州”
  • Chinese: “巴伐利亞邦”
  • Chinese: “拜仁”
  • Chinese: “拜仁州”
  • Chinese: “拜恩”
  • Chinese: “拜恩州”
  • Chuvash: “Бавари”
  • Cornish: “Bavaria”
  • Cornish: “Stat Rydh Bavaria”
  • Corsican: “Baviera”
  • Corsican: “Statu Liberu di Baviera”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bavariya”
  • Croatian: “Bavarska”
  • Croatian: “Bayern”
  • Croatian: “Freistaat Bayern”
  • Croatian: “Slobodna Država Bavarska”
  • Czech: “Bavorsko”
  • Czech: “Bavory”
  • Czech: “Svobodný stát Bavorsko”
  • Dagbani: “Bavaria”
  • Danish: “Bayern”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bavyera”
  • Dutch: “Beieren”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بافاريا”
  • Emilian: “Bavéra”
  • Esperanto: “Bavario”
  • Estonian: “Baieri”
  • Estonian: “Bavaaria”
  • Extremaduran: “Baviera”
  • Finnish: “Baijeri”
  • Finnish: “Bayern”
  • French: “Bavière”
  • French: “État libre de Bavière”
  • French: “État Libre de Bavière”
  • Friulian: “Baviere”
  • Galician: “Baviera”
  • Georgian: “ბავარია”
  • German: “Bayern”
  • German: “BY”
  • German: “DE-BY”
  • German: “Freistaat Bayern”
  • Greek: “Βαυαρία”
  • Guarani: “Baviera”
  • Guarani: “Vaviéra”
  • Gujarati: “બાવેરિયા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bayern”
  • Hausa: “Bavaria”
  • Hebrew: “בוואריה”
  • Hindi: “बवेरिया”
  • Hindi: “बायर्न”
  • Hungarian: “Bajor Szabadállam”
  • Hungarian: “Bajorország”
  • Icelandic: “Bæjaraland”
  • Icelandic: “Bayern”
  • Ido: “Bavaria”
  • Iloko: “Bavaria”
  • Indonesian: “Bayern”
  • Indonesian: “Negara Merdeka Bayern”
  • Ingush: “Бавари”
  • Interlingua: “Bavaria”
  • Interlingue: “Bavaria”
  • Irish: “an Bhaváir”
  • Irish: “An Bhaváir”
  • Italian: “Baviera”
  • Italian: “Stato Libero di Baviera”
  • Japanese: “バイエルン”
  • Japanese: “バイエルン州”
  • Japanese: “バイエルン自由州”
  • Javanese: “Bayern”
  • Kannada: “ಬವೇರಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bavariya”
  • Kashmiri: “باویریا”
  • Kashubian: “Bajerë”
  • Kashubian: “Bawariô”
  • Kashubian: “Freistaat Bayern”
  • Kazakh: “Бавария”
  • Kirghiz: “Бавария”
  • Kölsch: “Bajore”
  • Komering: “Bavaria”
  • Kongo: “Bavaria”
  • Korean: “바이에른 자유주”
  • Korean: “바이에른 주”
  • Korean: “바이에른주”
  • Kurdish: “Bavyera”
  • Kurdish: “Bayern”
  • Ladin: “Paiern”
  • Ladino: “Baviera”
  • Latgalian: “Bavāreja”
  • Latin: “Bavaria”
  • Latvian: “Bavārija”
  • Ligurian: “Bavea”
  • Limburgan: “Beiere”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Baiern”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Bayern”
  • Literary Chinese: “巴伐利亞”
  • Literary Chinese: “拜仁”
  • Lithuanian: “Bavarija”
  • Lombard: “Baviera”
  • Low German: “Baiern”
  • Low German: “Bayern”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Bayerska”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bayern”
  • Macedonian: “Баварија”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Bayan”
  • Malagasy: “Bavaria”
  • Malay: “Bavaria”
  • Malayalam: “ബവേറിയ”
  • Maltese: “Bavarja”
  • Manx: “Yn Vaveyr”
  • Marathi: “बायर्न”
  • Mazanderani: “باوریا”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “بافاريا”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “ولاية بافاريا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bayern”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bayern”
  • Mingrelian: “ბავარია”
  • Mongolian: “Бавар”
  • Mongolian: “Бавари”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “باڤاريا”
  • Nepali: “बाभारिया”
  • Nepali: “बायर्न”
  • Nepali: “बेयर्न”
  • Newari: “बभेरिया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bayern”
  • Northern Sami: “Bayern”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bayern”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bayern”
  • Norwegian: “Bayern”
  • Novial: “Bavaria”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bavièra”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bægwaraland”
  • Oromo: “Bavaria”
  • Ossetian: “Бавари”
  • Pampanga: “Babiera”
  • Pampanga: “Babiyera”
  • Pampanga: “Babyera”
  • Pampanga: “Bavaria”
  • Pampanga: “Timawang Estadu ning Babiyera”
  • Pampanga: “Timawang Estadu ning Babyera”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਈਆਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Freistaat Bayern”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Bavaari”
  • Persian: “بایرن”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Bayan”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Bayern”
  • Picard: “Bavière”
  • Piemontese: “Baviera”
  • Polish: “Bawaria”
  • Polish: “Freistaat Bayern”
  • Portuguese: “Bavária”
  • Portuguese: “Baviera”
  • Portuguese: “Bayern”
  • Portuguese: “Estado Livre da Baviera”
  • Portuguese: “Freistaat Bayern”
  • Pushto: “بایرن”
  • Quechua: “Bayern”
  • Romanian: “Bavaria”
  • Romanian: “statul Bavaria”
  • Romanian: “Statul Liber Bavaria”
  • Romansh: “Baviera”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бавари”
  • Russian: “Бавария”
  • Russian: “Байерн”
  • Russian: “Свободное государство Бавария”
  • Rusyn: “Баварія”
  • Samogitian: “Bavarėjė”
  • Sardinian: “Baviera”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Bayern”
  • Scots: “Bavarie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A’ Bhaidhearn”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bayern”
  • Serbian: “Баварска”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bavarska”
  • Sicilian: “Baviera”
  • Sicilian: “Statu Libbiru di Baviera”
  • Silesian: “Bajery”
  • Sindhi: “بويريا”
  • Sinhala: “බවයිරා”
  • Slovak: “Bavorsko”
  • Slovenian: “Bavarska”
  • Somali: “Bavaria”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بایرن”
  • Spanish: “Baviera”
  • Spanish: “Bayern”
  • Spanish: “Estado Libre de Baviera”
  • Sundanese: “Bayern”
  • Sundanese: “Nagara Bébas Bayern”
  • Swahili: “Bavaria”
  • Swedish: “Bajern”
  • Swedish: “Bayern”
  • Swiss German: “Bayern”
  • Tagalog: “Babiyera”
  • Tagalog: “Babyera”
  • Tagalog: “Bavaria”
  • Tagalog: “Baviera”
  • Tajik: “Бавария”
  • Tajik: “Байерн”
  • Talysh: “Bavarijə”
  • Talysh: “Bavariya”
  • Tamil: “பவேரியா”
  • Tatar: “Бавария”
  • Telugu: “బవేరియా”
  • Tetum: “Baviera”
  • Thai: “บาวาเรีย”
  • Thai: “ไบเอิร์น”
  • Thai: “รัฐบาวาเรีย”
  • Thai: “รัฐไบเอิร์น”
  • Thai: “เสรีรัฐบาวาเรีย”
  • Thai: “เสรีรัฐไบเอิร์น”
  • Turkish: “Bavyera”
  • Turkmen: “Bawariýa”
  • Ukrainian: “Баварія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bayerska”
  • Urdu: “باواریا”
  • Urdu: “باویریا”
  • Urdu: “بواریا”
  • Uzbek: “Bavariya”
  • Venetian: “Baviera”
  • Vietnamese: “Bayern”
  • Vlaams: “Beyern”
  • Volapük: “Bayän”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bayern”
  • Welsh: “Bafaria”
  • Western Armenian: “Պաւարիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Beieren”
  • Western Frisian: “Frijsteat Beieren”
  • Western Panjabi: “باویریا”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴伐利亚”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴伐利亚自由州”
  • Yakut: “Бавария”
  • Yiddish: “בייערן”
  • Yoruba: “Bavaria”
  • Yue Chinese: “拜仁”
  • Zeeuws: “Bayern”
  • “ma Pajan”

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