Munich

Munich (mew-nik, German: München) is a city that is the capital and the largest city of the state of Bavaria, Germany.

Situated around 31 miles (50 km) north of the northern edge of the Alps, it is located around 72 miles (115.8 km) north-west of the Austrian city of Salzburg and around 313 miles (503.7 km) south of Berlin.

It is Germany's third-largest city, behind Berlin and Hamburg, with a city population of 1.48 million people. It has an urban population of 2.6 million people and a metropolitan population of just under 6 million people.