Munich

Munich München
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Coordinates: 48°8′0″N 11°34′0″E / 48.13333°N 11.56667°E / 48.13333; 11.56667Coordinates: 48°8′0″N 11°34′0″E / 48.13333°N 11.56667°E / 48.13333; 11.56667
Kintra	Germany
State	Bavarie
Admin. region	Upper Bavarie
Destrict	Urban destrict
First mentioned	1158
Subdivisions	25 burghs
Govrenment
• Laird Mayor	Dieter Reiter (SPD)
• Governing parties	SPD / Greens / Rosa Liste
Area
• City	310.43 km2 (119.86 sq mi)
Elevation	519 m (1,703 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[1]
• City	1,512,491
• Density	4,900/km2 (13,000/sq mi)
• Urban	2,606,021
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	80331–81929
Diallin codes	089
Vehicle registration	M
Website	www.muenchen.de

Munich (German: München, pronounced [ˈmʏnçən] ( listen); Bavarian: Minga^[3]) is the caipital ceety o Bavarie (Bayern), Germany. It is locatit on the River Isar north o the Bavarie Alps. Munich is the third lairgest ceety in Germany, efter Berlin an Hamburgh. Thare are aboot 1.35 million fowk livin athin ceety limits, while the Munich Metropolitan Aurie (includin the urban auries o Augsburg, Ingolstadt, Rosenheim an Landshut) is hame tae ower 5 million fowk.^[4] Munich hostit the 1972 Simmer Olympics.

The ceety's motto is "München mag Dich" (Munich Loves You). Afore 2006, it wis "Weltstadt mit Herz" (Cosmopolitan ceety wi a hert). Its native name, München, is derived frae the Auld Hie German Munichen, meanin "bi the monks' place". The ceety's name derives frae the monks o the Benedictine order who foondit the ceety; hence the monk depictit on the ceety's coat o airms. Black an gowd—the colours o the Holy Roman Empire—hae been the ceety's offeeial colours syne the time o Ludwig the Bavarie.

Munich is no the anerlie location athin Bavarie kent as "München". Three such locations exist: ane that is kent as "Munich", anither that is locatit northeast o the ceety o Nuremberg, an a third, Hutthurm, that is locatit north o Passau.

Modren Munich is a financial an publishin hub, an a frequently top-ranked destination for migration an ex-patriate location in livability rankins. Munich achieved 7t place in frequently quotit Mercer livability rankins in 2010.^[5] For economic an social innovation, the ceety wis ranked 15t globally oot o 289 ceeties in 2010, an 5t in Germany bi the 2thinknow Innovation Cities Index based on analysis o 162 indicators.^[6] In 2010, Monocle ranked Munich as the warld's maist livable ceety.^[7]

Munich is twinned wi the follaein ceeties (date o agreement shown in parentheses).

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