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Munich

Munich
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About 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 not a state of its own, and it ranks as the 11th-largest city in the European Union (EU). The metropolitan area has around 3 million inhabitants, and the broader Munich Metropolitan Region is home to about 6.2 million people. It is the third largest metropolitan region by GDP in the EU. Munich is located on the river Isar north of the Alps. It is the seat of the Upper Bavarian administrative region. With 4,500 people per km2, Munich is Germany's most densely populated municipality. It is also the second-largest city in the Bavarian dialect area after Vienna.

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Some people in Munich have been writing a Latin Thesaurus since 1894. They're making a dictionary of Latin from 500 BC to 200 AD, and their aim is that every single word ever written in Latin ends up in this dictionary.

from No Such Thing As An Accidental Stuffed Crust, 2024-08-15 at 00:38:09 · read transcript

Other times Munich came up

  1. In fact, it was a something called a Webley which I think is a specific German dish. It's a sweet like meringue which has a figure of eight shape and yeah, he was inspired by that and he's the father of the advent calendar. Then his later advent calendars were called Munich calendars, weren't they? Then something in the 30s happened and he just wasn't very popular anymore outside of Germany.

    406: No Such Thing As Batman And Thrush, 2021-12-24 · listen

  2. In fact, it's something called Viblai, which I think is a specific German dish. It's a sweet like meringue, which has a figure of eight shape. Yeah, he was inspired by that, and he's the father of the advent calendar. Then his later advent calendars were called Munich calendars, weren't they? Yeah. Then something in the 30s happened, and he just wasn't very popular anymore outside of Germany.

    No Such Thing As Batman And Thrush, 2021-12-24 · listen

  3. They played Iceland in the northern... It was hard at Trump the invention of the anus. They played Andorra, and they... In 2017, the last one I... I find they played at a place called Hirs Schengar in Munich, and they chose that as fairly odd because of the proximity of the nude sunbaters in nearby garden. Were they sort of a target? Was it like that's a four? That's a sick.

    No Such Thing As Dung Beetles In Madame Tussauds, 2025-06-26 · listen

  4. There's someone else who we know where they were when war broke out. It's Adolf Hitler. The interesting thing is we know, because the... there was a photograph taken of this huge crowd in Munich at a place called the Odian Plats. They're all celebrating as lots of people, lots of crowds all over Europe celebrated the outbreak of war. They thought it was a good thing.

    No Such Thing As A Bouncy Asteroid, 2019-02-08 · listen

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