Toytown Germany

If you regularly use Yahoo! Weather to check for the forecast in Munich, you'll be familar with answering the question, "Do you mean Munich, Germany or Munich, North Dakota?". We're all familiar with Munich, Germany, but what about Munich, North Dakota? Well, Munich ND is in Cavalier County, just 30 Km south of the Canadian border. The population in 2002 was exactly 251, and dropping. The town was named, unsurprisingly, by the German immigrants who settled there in the 1880's. They mostly came from German enclaves in the Russian Ukraine. Today the ancestry in the town is 59% German, 10% English, and the remainder are Norwegian, Irish, Scottish, or Swedish. Nearby towns are Karlsruhr (100Km to the East), Starkweather (30 Km South), and Oslo (100 Km to the West). So now you know. ...

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Map via MapQuest.com

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An aerial photograph of Munich, North Dakota

For more facts and figures on this little town see: city-data.com / Munich, North Dakota

On a related note, read about Munich's Antipode off the coast of New Zealand.

And there is Munich, Norway:
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