Oberbayern Upper Bavaria
Map of Bavaria highlighting the Regierungsbezirk of Upper Bavaria
State	Bavaria
District seat	Munich
Area	17,529.41 km²
Population	4,320,934 (30 June 2008)
Pop. density	246 /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)
Altötting Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen Berchtesgadener Land Dachau Ebersberg Eichstätt Erding Freising Fürstenfeldbruck Garmisch-Partenkirchen Landsberg Miesbach Mühldorf Munich (München) Neuburg-Schrobenhausen Pfaffenhofen Rosenheim Starnberg Traunstein Weilheim-Schongau	Ingolstadt Munich (München) Rosenheim

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.

[edit] External links

• Official website (English) (German)
• Official website (German)
• Tourism website (English) (German)

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