The
Munich
Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...
Metropolitan Region is one of eleven
metropolitan regions in Germany, consisting of the agglomeration areas of
Munich
Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...
,
Augsburg
Augsburg ( , ; ; ) is a city in the Bavaria, Bavarian part of Swabia, Germany, around west of the Bavarian capital Munich. It is a College town, university town and the regional seat of the Swabia (administrative region), Swabia with a well ...
,
Ingolstadt
Ingolstadt (; Austro-Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian: ) is an Independent city#Germany, independent city on the Danube, in Upper Bavaria, with 142,308 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2023). Around half a million people live in the metropolitan ...
,
Landshut,
Rosenheim and
Landsberg am Lech
Landsberg am Lech (Landsberg at the Lech (river), Lech) is a Town#Germany, town in southwest Bavaria, Germany, about 65 kilometers west of Munich and 35 kilometers south of Augsburg. It is the capital of the district of Landsberg (district), Lands ...
. It is Germany's richest and fifth most populous metropolitan region after the
Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan-Region, the
Frankfurt Rhine-Main-Region, the
Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan-Region and the
Stuttgart Metropolitan-Region.
Metropolitan Region
*State:
Bavaria
Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total l ...
*Districts:
Lower Bavaria,
Upper Bavaria,
Swabia
*Area: 27,700 km
2 (40% of the state of Bavaria)
*Population: 5,991,144
*GDP: 210 billion euro (53% of the Bavarian GDP)
In comparison to the other ten German Metropolitan Regions, the Munich Metropolitan Region had:
*the highest population growth (about 5% from 1997 to 2004)
*the largest increase in employment (over 5% from 1997 to 2004)
*the highest gross value added per employed person (2003)
*the highest tax revenue per inhabitant (2003)
Larger Urban Zone
The Munich
Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) as defined by Eurostat's ''Urban Audit'' covers an area of 5,500 km
2 and in 2004 contained 2,531,706 inhabitants (pop. density 460,31/km
2). The Larger Urban Zone covers the following cities and districts:
[http://www.staedtestatistik.de/507.html Retrieved 15 June 2009.]
*Stadt
München
*
Landkreis Dachau
*
Landkreis Ebersberg
*
Landkreis Erding
*
Landkreis Freising
*
Landkreis Fürstenfeldbruck
*
Landkreis Landsberg am Lech
*
Landkreis München
*
Landkreis Starnberg
References
External links
Official website(German)
Initiative for European Metropolitan Regions in Germany(German)
Metropolitan areas of Germany
Geography of Munich
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