Upper Bavaria
Upper Bavaria is the Bavarian heartland. It's a place of deep forests, beautiful meadows, winding roads and jagged peaks. Upper Bavariais full of festivities.
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Altötting
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Prien am Chiemsee
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Aschheim
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Schliersee
Berchtesgaden National Park
Upper Bavaria
- Regierungsbezirk with 4,770,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 647 metres (2,123 feet)
- Description: administrative region of Bavaria, Germany
- Also known as“Oberbayern”“Regierungsbezirk Oberbayern”
- Neighbors
- Category: regional district in Bavaria
- Location
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Upper Bavaria” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Oberbayern”
- Arabic: “بافاريا العليا”
- Aragonese: “Alta Bavera”
- Armenian: “Վերին Բավարիա”
- Asturian: “Alta Baviera”
- Azerbaijani: “Yuxarı Bavariya”
- Balinese: “Bayern Duur”
- Basque: “Bavaria Garaia”
- Bavarian: “Obabayern”
- Bavarian: “Regiarungsbeziak Obabayern”
- Belarusian: “Верхняя Баварыя”
- Bulgarian: “Горна Бавария”
- Catalan: “Oberbayern”
- Cebuano: “Upper Bavaria”
- Chinese: “上巴伐利亚行政区”
- Chuvash: “Тури Бавари”
- Croatian: “Gornja Bavarska”
- Czech: “Horní Bavorsko”
- Danish: “Oberbayern”
- Dimli (individual language): “Bavyera Cori”
- Dutch: “Bezirk Oberbayern”
- Dutch: “Oberbayern”
- Dutch: “Regierungsbezirk Oberbayern”
- Esperanto: “Supra Bavario”
- Estonian: “Ülem-Baieri ringkond”
- Estonian: “Ülem-Baieri”
- Finnish: “Ylä-Baijeri”
- French: “district de Haute-Bavière”
- French: “District de Haute-Bavière”
- French: “Haute-Bavière”
- Galician: “Alta Baviera”
- German: “Oberbayern”
- German: “Regierungsbezirk Oberbayern”
- Greek: “Άνω Βαυαρία”
- Hebrew: “בוואריה עילית”
- Hungarian: “Felső-Bajorország”
- Indonesian: “Oberbayern”
- Interlingue: “Supra Bavaria”
- Irish: “an Bhaváir Uachtarach”
- Irish: “Oberbayern”
- Irish: “Regierungsbezirk Oberbayern”
- Italian: “Alta Baviera”
- Italian: “Distretto dell’Alta Baviera”
- Italian: “Distretto governativo dell’Alta Baviera”
- Japanese: “オーバーバイエルン”
- Japanese: “オーバーバイエルン県”
- Japanese: “オーバーバイエルン行政管区”
- Kazakh: “Жоғарғы Бавария”
- Korean: “오버바이에른현”
- Kurdish: “Bavyeraya Jorîn”
- Latin: “Bavaria Superior”
- Latvian: “Augšbavārija”
- Lithuanian: “Aukštutinė Bavarija”
- Lombard: “Alta Baviera”
- Low German: “Böverbayern”
- Luxembourgish: “Regierungsbezierk Uewerbayern”
- Luxembourgish: “Uewerbayern”
- Macedonian: “Горна Баварија”
- Malay: “Bruck, Upper Bavaria”
- Maltese: “Bavarja ta‘ Fuq”
- Northern Frisian: “Oberbayern”
- Northern Sami: “Oberbayern (ráđđehusdistrikta)”
- Northern Sami: “Oberbayern”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oberbayern”
- Norwegian: “Oberbayern”
- Norwegian: “Øvre Bayern”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nauta Bavièra”
- Ossetian: “Уæллаг Бавари”
- Persian: “باواریای علیا”
- Persian: “بایرن علیا”
- Polish: “Górna Bawaria”
- Portuguese: “Alta Baviera”
- Romanian: “Bavaria Superioară”
- Romanian: “Oberbayern”
- Russian: “Верхняя Бавария”
- Serbian: “Горња Баварска”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gornja Bavarska”
- Slovak: “Horné Bavorsko”
- Slovenian: “Zgornja Bavarska”
- Spanish: “Alta Baviera”
- Spanish: “Región administrativa de Alta Baviera”
- Swedish: “Oberbayern”
- Swiss German: “Oberbayern”
- Tatar: “Югары Бавария”
- Tetum: “Baviera Leten”
- Thai: “โอเบอร์ไบเอิร์น”
- Turkish: “Oberbayern”
- Turkish: “Yukarı Bavyera”
- Ukrainian: “Верхня Баварія”
- Urdu: “اوبر بائرن”
- Venetian: “Alta Baviera”
- Vietnamese: “Oberbayern”
- Vietnamese: “Thượng Bayern”
- Welsh: “Oberbayern”
- Western Armenian: “Վերին Պաւարիա”
- Wu Chinese: “上巴伐利亚行政区”
Bavaria: Highlights
Notable places include Nuremberg and Augsburg.
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