The Lower Inn Valley (german: Unterinntal) is that part of the Inntal valley through which the
Inn river flows from a point a few kilometres west of
Innsbruck
Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol (state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the ...
near its confluence with the
Melach downstream to a few kilometres before
Rosenheim. A further distinction can be made between the Tyrolean Lower Inn Valley (''Tiroler Unterinntal'') (as far as
Kufstein) and the Bavarian Lower Inn Valley (from
Kiefersfelden
Kiefersfelden is a municipality with about 7000 inhabitants located in the district of Rosenheim in Bavaria in Germany on the border with Tyrol, Austria.
Geography
Geographical location
Kiefersfelden is located in the foothills of the Alps, in ...
).
The Lower Inn Valley should not be confused with the
Tyrolean Unterland, of which it forms only a part. The Lower Inn Valley has one of the largest metropolitan areas in Austria. Around 380,000 people (2001) live in a relatively small area between Innsbruck and Rosenheim. The highest population densities, in terms of people per square kilometre, occur in Innsbruck (3,149), Rum (2,982), Kufstein (2,374), Hall i.T.(2,210) and Rosenheim (1,977).
Tyrolean Lower Inn Valley
Unlike the
Upper Inn Valley the Lower Inn Valley is very wide, densely settled and relatively industrialised. The
South Bavarian dialects exhibit transition features into Middle Bavarian.

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Valleys of Tyrol (state)
Inn (river)