Upper Bavaria

Oberbayern
Upper Bavaria
Bayern rboberbayern.png
Map of Bavaria highlighting the Regierungsbezirk of Upper Bavaria
State Bavaria
Region seat Munich
Area 17,529.41 km²
Population 4,346,465 (31 December 2009)[1]
Pop. density 248 /km²
Web page regierung.oberbayern.bayern.de

Upper Bavaria (German: Oberbayern) is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany, located in the south of Bavaria, around the city of Munich. It is subdivided into four regions (Planungsverband): Ingolstadt, Munich, Bayerisches Oberland (Upper Bavaria), and Südostoberbayern (South East Upper Bavaria). It is named 'Upper Bavaria' because the land is higher above sea level, not according to the map.

Landkreise
(districts)		 Kreisfreie Städte
(district-free towns)
  1. Altötting
  2. Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen
  3. Berchtesgadener Land
  4. Dachau
  5. Ebersberg
  6. Eichstätt
  7. Erding
  8. Freising
  9. Fürstenfeldbruck
  10. Garmisch-Partenkirchen
  11. Landsberg
  12. Miesbach
  13. Mühldorf
  14. Munich (München)
  15. Neuburg-Schrobenhausen
  16. Pfaffenhofen
  17. Rosenheim
  18. Starnberg
  19. Traunstein
  20. Weilheim-Schongau
  1. Ingolstadt
  2. Munich (München)
  3. Rosenheim

Population

Historical Population of Upper Bavaria:

Year Inhabitants
1939 1,999,048
1950 2,541,896
1961 2,831,744
1970 3,324,104
1987 3,598,126
2002 4,169,657
2005 4,238,195
2006 4,279,112

History

The duchy of Upper Bavaria was created for the first time with the First Bavarian partition in 1255 under duke Louis II but there was no exact identity with the current territory. After the reunification in 1340 Bavaria was divided again in 1349, and in 1392 the duchies Bavaria-Munich and Bavaria-Ingolstadt were created in Upper Bavaria. In 1505 Bavaria was irrevocably reunited. In 1837 king Ludwig I of Bavaria created the district of Upper Bavaria.

External links

Administrative regions (Regierungsbezirk) of Bavaria
Bavaria
Upper Bavaria • Lower Bavaria • Upper Palatinate • Upper Franconia • Middle Franconia • Lower Franconia • Swabia
 Germany

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