Bavaria (deu)

Bavaria

Bavaria ranks 1,489th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Suginami, Zerbst, and Aba, Nigeria. Memorable people born in Bavaria include Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, Patrick Süskind, and Pope Victor II. Memorable people who died in Bavaria include Otto Kretschmer, Charles the Younger, and Ernst Hanfstaengl. Bavaria has been the birth place of many politicians and religious figures and the death place of many politicians and writers. Bavaria is located in Germany.

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of 70,550.19 km2 (27,239.58 sq mi), it is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total land area of Germany. With over 13 million inhabitants, it is the second most populous German state behind North Rhine-Westphalia, but due to its large physical size its population density is below the German average. Major cities include Munich, Nuremberg, and Augsburg. Read more on Wikipedia