Oberbayern

Upper Bavaria (German: Oberbayern) is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany.

Upper Bavaria is located in the southern portion of Bavaria, and is centered around the city of Munich. It is subdivided into four regions (Planungsverband): Ingolstadt, Munich, Bayerisches Oberland (Upper Bavaria), and Südostoberbayern (South East Upper Bavaria). It is named 'Upper Bavaria' because the land is higher above sea level than the rest of Bavaria, not because it is farther north.

The Upper Bavarian coat of arms consists of two general Bavarian symbols: of the Bavarian white (silver) and blue lozenges (bayerische Rauten) and the Bavarian lion (pfalz-bayerischen Löwe). With that Upper Bavaria represents the facts that it is one of the core parts of the old wittelsbachischen territories of Bavaria and also that it is area and population wise the largest current day Bavarian administrative district.

Due to historical reasons Upper Bavarias population is traditionally catholic, there are 70 % Roman-Catholics (römisch-katholisch) and 17 % protestants (evangelisch-lutherisch), according to data from 1987. This is due to the fact that Upper Bavaria was for centuries part of the old-Bavarian wittelsbachischen territory (Altbayern) , ruled by the House of Wittelsbach that was catholic. In the past the people of this area either stayed catholic or reverted back to Catholicism after the so-called Gegenreformation (rigorous reinforcing of Catholicism,

Landkreise
(districts) Kreisfreie Städte
(district-free towns)
Altötting
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen
Berchtesgadener Land
Dachau
Ebersberg
Eichstätt
Erding
Freising
Fürstenfeldbruck
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Landsberg
Miesbach
Mühldorf
Munich (München)
Neuburg-Schrobenhausen
Pfaffenhofen
Rosenheim
Starnberg
Traunstein
Weilheim-Schongau
Ingolstadt
Munich (München