Bavaria
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Bavaria
- Type: State with 12,500,000 residents
- Description: federated state in the south of Germany
- Neighbors: Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, Salzburg, Saxony, South Bohemia, Thuringia, Tyrol, Upper Austria and Vorarlberg
- Categories: federated state of Germany, federated state, free state, ward and locality
- Location: Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
48.9468° or 48° 56' 48" northLongitude of center
11.4039° or 11° 24' 14" eastPopulation
12,500,000Elevation
503 metres (1,650 feet)Abbreviation
BYOpenStreetMap ID
node 473848012OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
2951839Wikidata ID
Q980Bavaria Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afar: Bavariya
- Afrikaans: Beiere
- Albanian: Bavaria
- Amharic: ባቫሪያ
- Arabic: Bayern
- Arabic: بافاريا
- Arabic: بافاريا الحرة
- Arabic: بايرن
- Arabic: بايرين
- Arabic: بفاريا
- Arabic: ولاية بافاريا
- Arabic: ولاية بافاريا الحرة
- Arabic: ولاية بايرن
- Aragonese: Bavera
- Armenian: Բավարիա
- Arpitan: Baviére
- Asturian: Baviera
- Asturian: Estáu Llibre de Baviera
- Aymara: Bayern suyu
- Azerbaijani: Bavariya
- Balinese: Bayern
- Bashkir: Бавария
- Basque: Bavaria
- Bavarian: Bayern
- Bavarian: Boarn
- Bavarian: Freistoot Boarn
- Belarusian: Баварыя
- Bengali: বাভারিয়া
- Bengali: বায়ার্ন
- Bosnian: Bavarska
- Breton: Bavaria
- Bulgarian: Бавария
- Burmese: ဘာဗေးရီးယားပြည်နယ်
- Catalan: Baviera
- Cebuano: Bavaria
- Central Kurdish: باڤاریا
- Chavacano: Baviera
- Chechen: Бавари
- Chinese: Bayern
- Chinese: 巴伐利亚
- Chinese: 巴伐利亚州
- Chinese: 巴伐利亚自由州
- Chinese: 巴伐利亞州
- Chinese: 巴伐利亞邦
- Chinese: 拜仁
- Chinese: 拜仁州
- Chinese: 拜恩
- Chinese: 拜恩州
- Chuvash: Бавари
- Cornish: Bavaria
- Cornish: Stat Rydh Bavaria
- Corsican: Baviera
- Corsican: Statu Liberu di Baviera
- Crimean Tatar: Bavariya
- Croatian: Bavarska
- Croatian: Bayern
- Croatian: Freistaat Bayern
- Croatian: Slobodna Država Bavarska
- Czech: Bavorsko
- Czech: Bavory
- Czech: Svobodný stát Bavorsko
- Danish: Bayern
- Dimli (individual language): Bavyera
- Dutch: Beieren
- Egyptian Arabic: بافاريا
- English: Bayern
- English: Free State of Bavaria
- English: Freistaat Bayern
- English: Freistoot Bayern
- Esperanto: Bavario
- Estonian: Baieri
- Estonian: Bavaaria
- Extremaduran: Baviera
- Finnish: Baijeri
- Finnish: Bayern
- French: Bavière
- French: État Libre de Bavière
- French: État libre de Bavière
- Friulian: Baviere
- Galician: Baviera
- Georgian: ბავარია
- German: BY
- German: Bayern
- German: DE-BY
- German: Freistaat Bayern
- Greek: Βαυαρία
- Guarani: Baviera
- Guarani: Vaviéra
- Gujarati: બાવેરિયા
- Hakka Chinese: Bayern
- Hausa: Bayern
- Hebrew: בוואריה
- Hindi: बवेरिया
- Hindi: बायर्न
- Hungarian: Bajor Szabadállam
- Hungarian: Bajorország
- Icelandic: Bæjaraland
- Ido: Bavaria
- Iloko: Bavaria
- Indonesian: Bavaria
- Indonesian: Bayern
- Indonesian: Negara Merdeka Bavaria
- Ingush: Бавари
- Interlingua: Bavaria
- Interlingue: Bavaria
- Irish: An Bhaváir
- Italian: Bavaria
- Italian: Baviera
- Italian: Stato Libero di Baviera
- Japanese: バイエルン
- Japanese: バイエルン州
- Japanese: バイエルン自由州
- Javanese: Bayern
- Kannada: ಬವೇರಿಯಾ
- Kara-Kalpak: Bavariya
- Kashubian: Bajerë
- Kazakh: Бавария
- Kirghiz: Бавария
- Kongo: Bavaria
- Korean: 바이에른 자유주
- Korean: 바이에른 주
- Korean: 바이에른주
- Kurdish: Bavyera
- Kurdish: Bayern
- Kölsch: Bajore
- Ladin: Paiern
- Ladino: Baviera
- Lao: Bavaria
- Latgalian: Bavāreja
- Latin: Bavaria
- Latvian: Bavārija
- Ligurian: Bavea
- Limburgan: Beiere
- Lingua Franca Nova: Bayern
- Literary Chinese: 巴伐利亞
- Lithuanian: Bavarija
- Lombard: Baviera
- Low German: Baiern
- Low German: Bayern
- Lower Sorbian: Bayerska
- Luxembourgish: Bayern
- Macedonian: Баварија
- Mainfränkisch: Bayan
- Malagasy: Bavaria
- Malay: Bavaria
- Malayalam: ബവേറിയ
- Maltese: Bavarja
- Manx: Yn Vaveyr
- Marathi: बायर्न
- Mazanderani: باوریا
- Min Dong Chinese: Bayern
- Min Nan Chinese: Bayern
- Mingrelian: ბავარია
- Mongolian: Бавар
- Mongolian: Бавари
- Moroccan Arabic: باڤاريا
- Nepali: बभेरिया
- Nepali: बाभारिया
- Nepali: बायर्न
- Nepali: बेयर्न
- Newari: बभेरिया
- Northern Frisian: Bayern
- Northern Sami: Bayern
- Norwegian: Bayern
- Norwegian Bokmål: Bayern
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Bayern
- Novial: Bavaria
- Occitan (post 1500): Bavièra
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Bægwaraland
- Ossetian: Бавари
- Pampanga: Babiera
- Pampanga: Babiyera
- Pampanga: Babyera
- Pampanga: Bavaria
- Pampanga: Timawang Estadu ning Babiyera
- Pampanga: Timawang Estadu ning Babyera
- Panjabi: ਬਾਈਆਨ
- Papiamento: Freistaat Bayern
- Pennsylvania German: Bavaari
- Persian: بایرن
- Pfaelzisch: Bayan
- Pfaelzisch: Bayern
- Picard: Bavière
- Piemontese: Baviera
- Polish: Bawaria
- Polish: Freistaat Bayern
- Portuguese: Bavaria
- Portuguese: Baviera
- Portuguese: Bavária
- Portuguese: Bayern
- Portuguese: Estado Livre da Baviera
- Portuguese: Freistaat Bayern
- Pushto: بایرن
- Quechua: Bayern
- Romanian: Bavaria
- Romansh: Baviera
- Russia Buriat: Бавари
- Russian: Бавария
- Russian: Байерн
- Russian: Свободное государство Бавария
- Rusyn: Баварія
- Samogitian: Bavarėjė
- Sardinian: Baviera
- Saterfriesisch: Bayern
- Scots: Bavarie
- Scottish Gaelic: A' Bhaidhearn
- Scottish Gaelic: Bayern
- Serbian: Баварска
- Serbo-Croatian: Bajore
- Serbo-Croatian: Bavarska
- Sicilian: Baviera
- Sicilian: Statu Libbiru di Baviera
- Silesian: Bajery
- Sindhi: بويريا
- Sinhala: බවයිරා
- Slovak: Bavorsko
- Slovenian: Bavarska
- South Azerbaijani: بایرن
- Spanish: Baviera
- Spanish: Bayern
- Spanish: Estado Libre de Baviera
- Sundanese: Bavaria
- Sundanese: Bayern
- Sundanese: Nagara Bébas Bayern
- Swahili: Bavaria
- Swedish: Bajern
- Swedish: Bayern
- Swiss German: Bayern
- Tagalog: Babiyera
- Tagalog: Babyera
- Tagalog: Bavaria
- Tagalog: Baviera
- Tajik: Бавария
- Tajik: Байерн
- Talysh: Bavarija
- Talysh: Bavariya
- Tamil: பவேரியா
- Tatar: Бавария
- Telugu: బవేరియా
- Tetum: Baviera
- Thai: รัฐบาวาเรีย
- Thai: รัฐไบเอิร์น
- Tosk Albanian: Bayern
- Turkish: Bavyera
- Turkmen: Bawariýa
- Ukrainian: Баварія
- Upper Sorbian: Bayerska
- Urdu: باواریا
- Urdu: بواریا
- Uzbek: Bavariya
- Venetian: Baviera
- Vietnamese: Bavaria
- Vietnamese: Bayern
- Vlaams: Beyern
- Volapük: Bayän
- Waray (Philippines): Bayern
- Welsh: Bafaria
- Western Armenian: Պաւարիա
- Western Frisian: Beieren
- Western Frisian: Frijsteat Beieren
- Western Panjabi: باویریا
- Wu Chinese: 巴伐利亚
- Yakut: Бавария
- Yiddish: בייערן
- Yoruba: Bavaria
- Yue Chinese: 拜仁
- Bavéra
- DE2
- Land Bayern
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Bavaria. Photo: gravitat-OFF, CC BY 2.0.