Passau
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.4|Aerial image of Passau showing the old town and the confluence of the rivers Inn, Danube, and Ilz (from left to right) Passau (; ) is a city in the Lower Bavaria (Niederbayern) region of the German state of Bavaria. It is also known as the '''''' ("City of Three Rivers"), as the river Danube is joined by the Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north.
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Passau is a city in Lower Bavaria, Germany, known as the "City of Three Rivers" because it sits at the confluence where the Danube River meets both the Inn River from the south and the Ilz River from the north. The city's distinctive location at this three-river junction makes it a notable geographic landmark in the Bavarian region.
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Key facts
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- File:PassauCollection2025.jpg
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- Clockwise from top: Stadtgalerie; St. Stephen's Cathedral; Heiligkreuz Church; Old Town Hall; Römermuseum; Veste Oberhaus; Old Town; View of Passau
- German location.type
- Stadt
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- Flagge Passau.svg
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- Wappen Passau.svg
- German location.state
- Bayern
- German location.region
- Niederbayern
- German location.district
- Kreisfreie Stadt
- German location.elevation
- 294-447
- German location.area
- 69.56
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 09262000
- German location.postal_code
Article
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Subdivisions
- Main sights
- Image gallery
- Migrant entry point
- Transport
- Twin towns – sister cities
- Notable people
- Climate
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|upright=1.4|Aerial image of Passau showing the old town and the confluence of the rivers Inn, Danube, and Ilz (from left to right) Passau (; ) is a city in the Lower Bavaria (Niederbayern) region of the German state of Bavaria. It is also known as the '''''' ("City of Three Rivers"), as the river Danube is joined by the Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north.
Passau's population is about 50,000, of whom about 12,000 are students at the University of Passau, renowned in Germany for its institutes of economics, law, theology, computer science and cultural studies.