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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Top destinations include Munich and Ingolstadt.

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

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is a city in Upper Bavaria, southern , best known for being home to the car company Audi. It was here that the dukes of Bavaria, Wilhelm IV and Ludwig X, announced the Reinheitsgebot brewing purity order in 1516, which is still used heavily in marketing for German beer.

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is a city with about 44,800 citizens in Upper Bavaria, and has a history of more than 1,200 years, but best known for being the location of the very first Nazi concentration camp.

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is in the state of . It is south-east of and has a population of 60,000.

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is in Upper Bavaria. lies at the foot of the Zugspitze in the Werdenfelser Land in Upper Bavaria and is Germany's most important winter sports metropolis, Olympic venue and important international winter sports center in the entire Alpine region.

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is a city in , 40km North of . is known as the historical center of the Catholic Church in Bavaria and as the location of the world's oldest continuously operating brewery.

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, or often unofficially called am Inn, is a village and historic market municipality in the state of , Germany, near the Austrian border, in the of Upper Bavaria.

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Munich's Franz Josef Strauß Airport is the primary international airport serving , the capital of . It is the second busiest airport in Germany and one of the busiest in Europe, serving as Lufthansa's second base and a Star Alliance hub.

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is one of the most important and most visited Catholic pilgrimage destination in Europe. The city is in Upper Bavaria, close to the border. The Gnadenkapelle is one of the most-visited shrines in Germany.

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is a small, picturesque and historic town in the southeast of the state of , within a small enclave surrounded on three sides by the border.

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is a small town in Upper Bavaria that has an excellently preserved baroque city center, is one of the smallest university towns in Europe, and is located in the middle of the Altmühltal Nature Park.

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is a popular local resort on Lake in Upper Bavaria. The town is 30 km southwest of Munich, at the north end of Lake . It is in the heart of the "Five Lakes Country", and is the capital of the district of .

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is in the state of . It is famous for its Passion Play staged every 10 years, and for the "Luftmalerei".

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is the largest lake in , . This article covers the municipality that consists of the islands of Herrenchiemsee, Frauenchiemsee and the uninhabited Krautinsel.

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is a spa town in the in , near Salzburg, . has a population of 18,500.

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is an Alpine town in the state of . Although it only has a population of 7,200 people, it has a great tradition of violin-making.

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is a city of 36,000 people in Upper Bavaria, . Although the city is home to the world's biggest brewery for wheat beers, Europe's biggest spa, and Munich Airport is only 10 min away, the city has kept most of its small town charm and historical center.

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is a town in Upper Bavaria. The longest castle complex in the world watches over a hill above the excellently preserved old town: six castle courtyards strung together make up a length of over one kilometre.

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is a town of the district of , located in , Germany. The town had a population of 19,033 as of 31 December 2019.

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, officially "Garching b. " is a northern suburb of Munich in Upper Bavaria. Its main claim to fame is the Forschungszentrum which does high class research into all kinds of things.

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is a health resort and tourist centre on the eastern banks of the lake in the south of the state of .

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is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian in Germany. Located 16 kilometres east of , the town is a certified air and Kneipp spa on the western shore of , 's largest lake.

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is a city of 12,000 people in Upper Bavaria about 90 km south of . It is situated on the Staffelsee, just north of the .

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is a small town of 17,000 people in Upper Bavaria 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.

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is a small town in , . It is popular mainly because of the nearby abbey.

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is a small skiing resort and spa between and on the Ammergau railway in the district of Upper Bavaria. The community has the highest mud bath in Germany.

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is a holiday and ski resort in on the waterfront of the lake with the same name. It's on the edge of the , approximately 50 km south of .

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am See is a municipality and a town in the district of in , on the shores of . The municipality consists of the Altjoch, Brunnenbach, Ort, Pessenbach, Pfisterberg, Walchensee and Ried districts.

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is in Upper Bavaria on the north-east shore of the .

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is in the alpine section of , south of the town of .

Upper Bavaria

Latitude of center
48° north
Longitude of center
11° east
Population
4,760,000
Elevation
647 metres (2,123 feet)
Geo­Names ID
2861322
Wiki­data ID
Q10562
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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”
  • Tatar: “Югары Бавария”
  • Tetum: “Baviera Leten”
  • Thai: “โอเบอร์ไบเอิร์น”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Oberbayern”
  • 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”
  • “Oberbayern”

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