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Garching

Garching, officially "Garching b. " is a northern suburb of Munich in . Its main claim to fame is the Forschungszentrum which does high class research into all kinds of things.
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  • Type: Town with 17,700 residents
  • Description: city in Bavaria, Germany
  • Also known as: “09184119”, “Garching b.Muenchen”, “Garching bei München”, and “Stadt Garching b.München”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include European Southern Observatory and Garching station.

Research institute
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0.
The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, commonly referred to as the , is an intergovernmental research organisation made up of 16 member states for ground-based astronomy.

Metro station
Photo: Cornelius Kibelka, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Garching is an U-Bahn station in Garching on the U6.

Metro station
Photo: Martinluck97, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Garching-Hochbrück is a Munich U-Bahn station in Hochbrück on the U6. It opened on October 28, 1995.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ismaning and Hochbrück.

Photo: Richard Bartz, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a small town of 17,000 people in 12 km north of Munich city ​​centre on the right bank of the Isar. It is known for the media centre that was built on a former ceramic manufacturing site in the southern part of the town.

Suburb
Photo: FlocciNivis, CC BY 4.0.
is a suburb.

Village
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is a village.

Garching

Latitude
48.2514° or 48° 15′ 5″ north
Longitude
11.651° or 11° 39′ 4″ east
Population
17,700
Elevation
483 metres (1,585 feet)
Open location code
8FWH7M22+H9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240084687
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6559193
Wiki­data ID
Q264620
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Garching” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غارشينغ باي مونشن”
  • Arabic: “غارشينغ باي مونيخ”
  • Aragonese: “Garching bei München”
  • Armenian: “Գարխինգ”
  • Basque: “Garching bei München”
  • Bavarian: “Garching bei Minga”
  • Catalan: “Garching bei München”
  • Cebuano: “Garching b.München”
  • Chechen: “Гархинг-бай-Муьнхен”
  • Chinese: “加兴”
  • Chinese: “加興”
  • Chinese: “慕尼黑附近加兴”
  • Croatian: “Garching bei München”
  • Czech: “Garching bei München”
  • Danish: “Garching bei München”
  • Dutch: “Garching bei München”
  • Esperanto: “Garching bei München”
  • Esperanto: “Garching”
  • Finnish: “Garching bei München”
  • French: “Garching b.München”
  • French: “Garching bei München”
  • German: “Garching (München)”
  • German: “Garching b.München”
  • German: “Garching bei München”
  • German: “Garching”
  • German: “Gouvirihhinga”
  • Hebrew: “גרכינג ליד מינכן”
  • Hungarian: “Garching bei München”
  • Indonesian: “Garching bei München”
  • Interlingue: “Garching (München)”
  • Interlingue: “Garching”
  • Irish: “Garching bei München”
  • Italian: “Garching bei München”
  • Japanese: “ガーヒンク・バイ・ミュンヘン”
  • Japanese: “ガーヒング・バイ・ミュンヘン”
  • Kazakh: “Гархинг”
  • Kirghiz: “Гархинг-бай-Мюнхен”
  • Korean: “가르힝”
  • Kurdish: “Garching bei München”
  • Ladin: “Garching b.München”
  • Ladin: “Garching bei München”
  • Lithuanian: “Garchingas”
  • Lombard: “Garching bei München”
  • Macedonian: “Гархинг кај Минхен”
  • Macedonian: “Гархинг”
  • Malay: “Garching bei München”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Garching”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Garching bei München”
  • Norwegian: “Garching”
  • Persian: “گارشینگ بای مونیخ”
  • Polish: “Garching bei München”
  • Portuguese: “Garching bei München”
  • Romanian: “Garching bei München”
  • Russian: “Гархинг-бай-Мюнхен”
  • Russian: “Гархинг”
  • Serbian: “Гархинг код Минхена”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Garching bei München”
  • Slovak: “Garching bei München”
  • Slovenian: “Garching bei München”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قارشینق بای مونیخ”
  • Spanish: “Garching bei München”
  • Swedish: “Garching bei München”
  • Tatar: “Гархинг-бай-Мюнхен”
  • Turkish: “Garching bei München”
  • Ukrainian: “Гархінг-бай-Мюнхен”
  • Uzbek: “Garching bei München”
  • Vietnamese: “Garching bei München”
  • Volapük: “Garching bei München”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Garching bei München”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Garching”. Photo: M-Luftbild, CC BY-SA 3.0.