Editing Munich (section)

==Around Munich==

===Nearby towns===
The Munich agglomeration sprawls across the plain of the [[Foothills|Alpine foothills]] comprising about 2.6&nbsp;million inhabitants. Several smaller traditional Bavarian towns and cities like [[Dachau, Bavaria|Dachau]], [[Freising]], [[Erding]], [[Starnberg]], [[Landshut]] and [[Moosburg]] are today part of the Greater Munich Region, formed by Munich and the surrounding districts, making up the [[Munich Metropolitan Region]], which has a population of about 6&nbsp;million people.<ref name="mmr_official_site"/>

===Recreation===

South of Munich, there are numerous nearby freshwater lakes such as [[Lake Starnberg]], [[Ammersee]], [[Chiemsee]], [[Walchensee]], [[Kochelsee]], [[Tegernsee (lake)|Tegernsee]], [[Schliersee (lake)|Schliersee]], [[Simssee]], [[Staffelsee]], [[Wörthsee]], [[Kirchsee (Bavaria)|Kirchsee]] and the [[Osterseen]] (Easter Lakes), which are popular among Munich residents for recreation, swimming and watersports and can be quickly reached by car and a few also by Munich's [[Munich S-Bahn|S-Bahn]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.muenchen.de/freizeit/seen-uebersicht/seen-umland.html |title=Lakes in Munich's vicinity |publisher=muenchen.de – The official city portal |access-date=6 September 2016 |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917183544/http://www.muenchen.de/freizeit/seen-uebersicht/seen-umland.html |archive-date=17 September 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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File:Starnberger See, HB-03.jpg|[[Lake Starnberg]]
File:Ammersee.JPG|[[Ammersee]]
File:Chiemsee010.jpg|[[Chiemsee]]
File:Walchensee-Teilausschnitt.jpg|[[Walchensee]]
File:Gmund Kaltenbrunn Südausblick.JPG|[[Tegernsee (lake)|Tegernsee]]
File:Osterseen Gewitterabend Grosser Ostersee 02.jpg|[[Osterseen|Großer Ostersee]]
File:Kirchsee in der Abendsonne.jpg|[[Kirchsee (Bavaria)|Kirchsee]]
File:Simssee Suedufer Wendelstein Beuerberg Riedering-1.jpg|[[Simssee]]
File:Wörthsee +.jpg|[[Wörthsee]]
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