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Bavaria (German: Freistaat Bayern (help·info), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) an almost 12.5 million inhabitants, lies in the southeast of Germany and is the geographically largest state (Bundesland) of Germany. Its capital is Munich. About 6.4 million of its population are Bavarian, 4.1 million Franconian and 1.8 million Swabian.

Trivia about bavaria

  • The world's first pure food & beverage law, one pertaining to beer, was proclaimed by the Duke of this region in 1516
  • Nuremberg & Augsburg are cities in this southern German state
  • Bayern is the German name of this German state known for its beer
  • Louis I's lust for Lola Montez led him to lose the throne of this German kingdom
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) If you drive on A3 in Germany's extreme southeast, from Passau to Wurzburg, you've been in this geographically largest state the whole 3 hours
  • The Hofbrauhaus in Munich was once the royal court brewery of this German state
  • Ludwig I's infatuation with the dancer Lola Montez helped ensure his loss of this German kingdom
  • Otto, who ruled Greece from 1832 to 1862, was the son of King Ludwig of this German state
  • Cream center of Germany(7)
  • The initials "BMW" stand for this region's "Motor Works"
  • Wagner had to flee Munich after raiding this German state's treasury to maintain his lifestyle
  • In 1805 Napoleon made this duchy a kingdom; today it's Germany's largest & southernmost state
  • Mad King Otto of this German kingdom "shot" a peasant daily; unbeknownst to Otto, the gun held blanks
  • When this largest German state was reunited as a kingdom in the early 1500s, Munich became its capital

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