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Upper Palatinate

The Upper Palatinate is an administrative district in the east of , . It consists of seven districts and 226 municipalities, including three cities.
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Essential Destinations

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is one of Germany's oldest towns, founded by the Romans in 179 AD. It is in the federal state of , at the northernmost point of the river .

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is in Upper Palatinate. Having been a rich city in the early modern era, has a well preserved city wall.

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is a city in Upper Palatinate in , . Its name is pronounced quite similar to the English word "calm" and not with a German "ch" sound.

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is a town in the Upper Palatinate in , , which is the seat of the . It lies on the river .

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is a town in the , in the region of the Upper Palatinate in eastern , . It is widely known for the United States Army military installation and training area, called Grafenwoehr Training Area, located directly south and west of the town.

Upper Palatinate

Latitude of center
49.5001° or 49° 30′ 0″ north
Longitude of center
12.0001° or 12° 0′ 0″ east
Population
1,120,000
Elevation
628 metres (2,060 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4696326926
Geo­Names ID
2859444
Wiki­data ID
Q10555
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Upper Palatinate” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Oberpfalz”
  • Arabic: “بالاتينات العليا”
  • Aragonese: “Alto Palatinato”
  • Armenian: “Վերին Պֆալց”
  • Asturian: “Altu Palatináu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yuxarı Pfalts”
  • Basque: “Palatinatu Garaia”
  • Bavarian: “Obapfoiz”
  • Bavarian: “Owerpfålz”
  • Belarusian: “Верхні Пфальц”
  • Bulgarian: “Горен Пфалц”
  • Catalan: “Alt Palatinat”
  • Cebuano: “Upper Palatinate”
  • Chinese: “上普法尔茨行政区”
  • Chuvash: “Тури Пфальц”
  • Czech: “Horní Falc”
  • Danish: “Oberpfalz”
  • Dutch: “Bezirk Oberpfalz”
  • Dutch: “Oberpfalz”
  • Dutch: “Regierungsbezirk Oberpfalz”
  • Esperanto: “Supra Palatinato”
  • Estonian: “Oberpfalz”
  • Estonian: “Oberpfalzi ringkond”
  • Finnish: “Oberpfalz”
  • French: “district du Haut-Palatinat”
  • French: “District du Haut-Palatinat”
  • French: “Haut-Palatinat”
  • Galician: “Alto Palatinado”
  • German: “Oberpfalz”
  • German: “Regierungsbezirk Oberpfalz”
  • Greek: “Άνω Παλατινάτο”
  • Hebrew: “פפאלץ עילית”
  • Hungarian: “Felső-Pfalz”
  • Indonesian: “Oberpfalz”
  • Interlingue: “Supra Palatina”
  • Italian: “Alto Palatinato”
  • Italian: “distretto dell’Alto Palatinato”
  • Italian: “Distretto dell’Alto Palatinato”
  • Italian: “Distretto governativo dell’Alto Palatinato”
  • Japanese: “オーバープファルツ”
  • Japanese: “オーバープファルツ県”
  • Japanese: “オーバープファルツ行政管区”
  • Korean: “오버팔츠현”
  • Kurdish: “Oberpfalz”
  • Latin: “Palatinatus Superior”
  • Lithuanian: “Aukštutinis Pfalcas”
  • Lombard: “Alt Palatinato”
  • Low German: “Böverpalz”
  • Luxembourgish: “Regierungsbezierk Uewerpfalz”
  • Luxembourgish: “Uewerpfalz”
  • Macedonian: “Горен Пфалц”
  • Maltese: “Oberpfalz”
  • Northern Frisian: “Oberpfalz”
  • Northern Sami: “Oberpfalz (distrikta)”
  • Northern Sami: “Oberpfalz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oberpfalz”
  • Norwegian: “Oberpfalz”
  • Ossetian: “Уæллаг Пфальц”
  • Persian: “پفالتس علیا”
  • Persian: “فالتس علیا”
  • Polish: “Górny Palatynat”
  • Portuguese: “Alto Palatinado”
  • Romanian: “Palatinatul Superior”
  • Russian: “Верхний Пфальц”
  • Serbian: “Горњи Палатинат”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gornji Palatinat”
  • Slovenian: “Zgornja Pfalška”
  • Spanish: “Alto Palatinado”
  • Swedish: “Oberpfalz”
  • Tajik: “Фолтси Боло”
  • Tatar: “Югары Пфальц”
  • Thai: “โอเบิร์พฟัลทซ์”
  • Turkish: “Regierungsbezirke Yukarı Palatina”
  • Turkish: “Yukarı Palatina”
  • Ukrainian: “Верхній Пфальц”
  • Vietnamese: “Thượng Pfalz”
  • “Oberpfalz”

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