Kingdom of Bavaria

Bavaria, or the Kingdom of Bavaria (German: Königreich Bayern) is a state in Central Europe, bordering France, Rheinland, Hesse, Baden, and Württemberg to the west, Saxe-Erfurt and Saxony to the north, and Austria to the east and south. Bavaria has an exclave to its west, Pfalz, which is, along with Wurzburg and Bayern proper, one of the three states of its decentralized parliamentary monarchy system, established after the July Revolution of 1959. It is the second largest state in the German Confederation, after Austria. It has an area of 75,865 km² and a population of 14,991,245. Its biggest cities are Munich and Nuremberg.