Bavaria is the English word for the German state of Bayern. Bavaria is located in the southeastern corner of Germany. About 11,449 thousand people live in the approximately 27,238 square miles (70,546 square kilometers) that is Bavaria. Most of the state is a plateau surrounded by mountains. Those mountains are the Bavarian Alps that blend into the Tirplesese Alps at the Austrian border. Germany’s highest peak, The Zugspitze, lies in these mountains. It r