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Munich

Munich is the capital of the federal state of in the south of . Within the city limits, Munich in 2024 has a population of just under 1.6 million, the third most populous city in Germany.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include North Munich and Altstadt.

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Northern Munich is a large expanse of the city of Munich bounded to the north by A99 autobahn, to the east by the river Isar, and to the west and south by the railway tracks running from the airport to city centre.

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meaning "old city" is the very heart of Munich. Three gates are all that remain of the medieval defensive walls, but within is a well-preserved district with many of Munich's iconic sights: twin-towered Frauenkirche, New City Hall with clockwork figures dancing to the chimes of its Glockenspiel, and Hofbräuhaus that temple to drinking and gorging.

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is a residential and night life area of Munich, about 2 km east of city centre on the east bank of the river Isar. It comprises the boroughs of Au-Haidhausen, Alt-Bogenhausen and Untergiesing.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt and Maxvorstadt.

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is the district of Munich immediately south and west of , which is the historic centre. It's where most visitors arrive, as it's the transport hub, with trains from all parts of Germany, S-Bahn commuter lines from the airport and elsewhere in the city, and the central bus station.

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is the arts and university district of Munich, just north of Altstadt the historic city centre.

comprises all the districts of Munich east of the river Isar; however the area around Ostbahnhof the east railway station is described separately as .

Munich is an area of the city of Munich roughly bounded by the railway tracks north, A99 west, the River Isar east, and the tract of land along A96 south.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Alte Pinakothek and Munich Central Station.

Museum
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The is an art museum located in the Kunstareal area in Munich, Germany. It is one of the oldest galleries in the world and houses a significant collection of Old Master paintings.

Railway station
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München Hauptbahnhof or is the main railway station in the city of Munich, Germany. It is one of the three stations with long-distance services in Munich, the others being and .

University
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The is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the district of Munich, in , Germany.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Neuhausen-Nymphenburg and Untergiesing-Harlaching.

Suburb
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Northern Munich is a large expanse of the city of Munich bounded to the north by A99 autobahn, to the east by the river Isar, and to the west and south by the railway tracks running from the airport to city centre.

Quarter
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is the 18th borough of Munich, Germany, mostly the districts of Untergiesing and Harlaching. The borough's western border is the river , in the south it borders on and the Perlacher Forst, to the north-west on the Munich borough of and to the north on the borough of .

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Munich

Latitude
48.1371° or 48° 8′ 14″ north
Longitude
11.5754° or 11° 34′ 31″ east
Population
1,480,000
Elevation
524 metres (1,719 feet)
IATA airport code
MUC
United Nations Location Code
DE MUC
Open location code
8FWH4HPG+R5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1700534808
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2867714
Wiki­data ID
Q1726
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Munich” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “München”
  • Albanian: “Mynihu”
  • Amharic: “ሙኒክ”
  • Arabic: “ميونخ”
  • Aragonese: “Múnich”
  • Armenian: “Մյունխեն”
  • Asturian: “München”
  • Asturian: “Munich”
  • Aymara: “München”
  • Azerbaijani: “Münhen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Münxen”
  • Balinese: “München”
  • Bashkir: “Мюнхен”
  • Basque: “Munich”
  • Bavarian: “LHM”
  • Bavarian: “Minga”
  • Bavarian: “MUC”
  • Bavarian: “München”
  • Belarusian: “Мюнхен”
  • Belarusian: “Мюнхэн”
  • Bengali: “মিউনিখ”
  • Bengali: “ম্যুনশেন”
  • Bosnian: “Minhen”
  • Bosnian: “München”
  • Breton: “München”
  • Breton: “Munich”
  • Bulgarian: “Мюнхен”
  • Burmese: “မြူးနစ်ချ်မြို့”
  • Burmese: “မြူးနစ်ခ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Munic”
  • Catalan: “Múnic”
  • Cebuano: “München”
  • Cebuano: “Munich”
  • Central Kanuri: “Munich”
  • Central Kurdish: “میونخ”
  • Central Kurdish: “میونشن”
  • Chavacano: “Múnich”
  • Chechen: “Муьнхен”
  • Chinese: “München”
  • Chinese: “慕尼黑”
  • Chinese: “明兴”
  • Chuvash: “Мюнхен”
  • Cornish: “Munich”
  • Corsican: “Monacu di Baviera”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Münhen”
  • Croatian: “München”
  • Czech: “Mnichov”
  • Dagbani: “Munich”
  • Danish: “München”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Munix”
  • Dotyali: “म्युनिख”
  • Dutch: “Munchen”
  • Dutch: “München”
  • Eastern Mari: “Мюнхен”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميونيخ”
  • Erzya: “Мюнхен ош”
  • Esperanto: “Munĥeno”
  • Esperanto: “Munkeno”
  • Estonian: “München”
  • Extremaduran: “Múnich”
  • Faroese: “München”
  • Fijian: “Munich”
  • Finnish: “Munchen”
  • Finnish: “München”
  • French: “Minga”
  • French: “München”
  • French: “Munich”
  • Fulah: “Munich”
  • Galician: “Múnic”
  • Georgian: “მიუნხენი”
  • German: “Landeshauptstadt München”
  • German: “LH München”
  • German: “LHM”
  • German: “Minga”
  • German: “Monachium”
  • German: “MUC”
  • German: “Muenchen”
  • German: “München”
  • German: “Stadt München”
  • Gothic: “𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌹𐌷𐌴𐌹𐌽”
  • Greek: “Μόναχο”
  • Guarani: “Múnich”
  • Guarani: “Múnichi”
  • Gujarati: “મ્યૂનિખ”
  • Haitian: “Munich”
  • Hakka Chinese: “München”
  • Hausa: “München”
  • Hawaiian: “Munike”
  • Hebrew: “מינכן”
  • Hindi: “म्यूनिख”
  • Hungarian: “München”
  • Icelandic: “München”
  • Ido: “München”
  • Iloko: “Munich”
  • Indonesian: “München”
  • Indonesian: “Munich”
  • Interlingua: “München”
  • Interlingue: “München”
  • Irish: “München”
  • Italian: “Monaco di Baviera”
  • Italian: “Monaco”
  • Italian: “Munchen”
  • Italian: “München”
  • Italian: “Munich”
  • Japanese: “ミューニック”
  • Japanese: “ミュンヒェン”
  • Japanese: “ミュンヘン”
  • Javanese: “München”
  • Kabyle: “Myunix”
  • Kannada: “ಮುನಿಕ್”
  • Kannada: “ಮ್ಯೂನಿಕ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Myunxen”
  • Kashubian: “München”
  • Kazakh: “Мюнхен қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Мюнхен”
  • Kirghiz: “Мюнхен”
  • Kölsch: “München”
  • Komering: “München”
  • Kongo: “Munich”
  • Korean: “뮌헨”
  • Korean: “뮨헨”
  • Kotava: “München”
  • Kurdish: “Munîh”
  • Ladin: “Minca”
  • Ladin: “Minga”
  • Ladin: “Monaco di Baviera”
  • Ladin: “München”
  • Ladin: “Munich”
  • Ladino: “Munich”
  • Latgalian: “Minhene”
  • Latin: “Monachium”
  • Latin: “Monacum”
  • Latvian: “Minhene”
  • Lezghian: “Мюнхен”
  • Ligurian: “Monego de Bavèa”
  • Ligurian: “Monego de Bavêa”
  • Limburgan: “München”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “München”
  • Literary Chinese: “慕尼黑”
  • Lithuanian: “Miunchenas”
  • Lombard: “Monegh de Baviera”
  • Lombard: “Münegh”
  • Low German: “München”
  • Low German: “Muunsjen”
  • Lower Sorbian: “München”
  • Luxembourgish: “München”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “München”
  • Macedonian: “Минхен”
  • Malagasy: “München”
  • Malay: “Munich”
  • Malayalam: “മ്യുഞ്ചൻ”
  • Malayalam: “മ്യൂണിക്ക്”
  • Malayalam: “മ്യൂണിച്ച്”
  • Maltese: “München”
  • Maltese: “Munich”
  • Maltese: “Münich”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯨꯅꯤꯛ”
  • Manx: “München”
  • Marathi: “म्युन्शेन”
  • Mazanderani: “مونیخ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “München”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “München”
  • Mingrelian: “მიუნხენი”
  • Moksha: “Мюнхэн”
  • Mongolian: “Мюнхен”
  • Nauru: “Munich”
  • Neapolitan: “Monaco ‘e Baviera”
  • Neapolitan: “Monaco ’e Baviera”
  • Neapolitan: “Monaco e Baviera”
  • Nepali: “म्युनिख”
  • Nepali: “म्यूनिख”
  • Newari: “म्युनिख”
  • Northern Frisian: “München”
  • Northern Sami: “München”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “München”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “München”
  • Norwegian: “München”
  • Novial: “München”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Munic”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mynecen”
  • Ossetian: “Мюнхен”
  • Pampanga: “Munich”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਿਊਨਿਖ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਿਊਨਿਖ਼”
  • Papiamento: “München”
  • Pennsylvania German: “München”
  • Persian: “مونشن”
  • Persian: “مونیخ”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Minche”
  • Pfaelzisch: “München”
  • Picard: “München”
  • Piemontese: “Mùnich ëd Baviera”
  • Piemontese: “Mùnich”
  • Polish: “Monachium”
  • Portuguese: “Minga”
  • Portuguese: “Monachium”
  • Portuguese: “Muenchen”
  • Portuguese: “Munchen”
  • Portuguese: “München”
  • Portuguese: “Munich”
  • Portuguese: “Münich”
  • Portuguese: “Munique”
  • Quechua: “München”
  • Romanian: “München”
  • Romansh: “Minca”
  • Russia Buriat: “Мюнхен”
  • Russian: “Мюнхен”
  • Rusyn: “Мнихів”
  • Samogitian: “Mionchens”
  • Sardinian: “Monaco de Baviera”
  • Sardinian: “Mònacu de Baviera”
  • Saterfriesisch: “München”
  • Scots: “Munich”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “München”
  • Serbian: “Minhen”
  • Serbian: “Минхен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Minhen”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “München”
  • Sicilian: “Mònacu di Baviera”
  • Sicilian: “Mònacu”
  • Silesian: “München”
  • Sindhi: “ميونخ”
  • Sinhala: “මියුනික්”
  • Slovak: “Mníchov”
  • Slovenian: “Minken*”
  • Slovenian: “Monakovo*”
  • Slovenian: “München”
  • Somali: “München”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مونیخ”
  • Spanish: “Mónaco de Baviera”
  • Spanish: “München”
  • Spanish: “Múnich”
  • Spanish: “Muñique”
  • Sundanese: “Munchen”
  • Sundanese: “München”
  • Sundanese: “Munich”
  • Swahili: “München”
  • Swedish: “Munchen”
  • Swedish: “München”
  • Swiss German: “Münche”
  • Swiss German: “München”
  • Tachelhit: “Myunix”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng München”
  • Tagalog: “Munich”
  • Tajik: “Мюнхен”
  • Talysh: “Munhen”
  • Tamil: “மியூனிக்”
  • Tamil: “முனிச்”
  • Tamil: “ம்யூனிக்”
  • Tatar: “Мүнхен”
  • Telugu: “మ్యూనిక్”
  • Tetum: “Munike”
  • Thai: “มิวนิก”
  • Thai: “มิวนิค”
  • Thai: “มึนเซิน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “München”
  • Tumbuka: “Munich”
  • Turkish: “LHM”
  • Turkish: “Minga”
  • Turkish: “MUC”
  • Turkish: “München”
  • Turkish: “Münih”
  • Turkmen: “Mýunhen”
  • Twi: “München”
  • Udmurt: “Мюнхен”
  • Uighur: “Myunxén”
  • Ukrainian: “Мюнхен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Mnichow”
  • Upper Sorbian: “München”
  • Urdu: “میونخ”
  • Uzbek: “München”
  • Uzbek: “Munhen”
  • Uzbek: “Myunxen”
  • Venetian: “Monaco de Baviera”
  • Veps: “Münhen”
  • Vietnamese: “München”
  • Vietnamese: “Munich”
  • Vlaams: “München”
  • Vlax Romani: “Menix”
  • Volapük: “München”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Munich”
  • Welsh: “München”
  • Western Armenian: “Միւնիխ”
  • Western Frisian: “München”
  • Western Mari: “Мӱнхен”
  • Western Panjabi: “میونخ”
  • Wu Chinese: “慕尼黑”
  • Wu Chinese: “穆尼黑”
  • Yakut: “Мүнхэн”
  • Yiddish: “מינכן”
  • Yiddish: “מינכען”
  • Yoruba: “Munich”
  • Yue Chinese: “慕尼黑”
  • Zeeuws: “München”
  • “ma tomo Minsen”
  • “Mionchens”
  • “Mònag ‘d Bavéra”
  • “Mònag ’d Bavéra”
  • “München”
  • “Munich”

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