Fugging
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  Fugging Location in Austria, 4 kilometers from the German border. | |
| Coordinates: 48°04′02″N 12°51′49″E / 48.06722°N 12.86361°E | |
| Country | Austria |
| State | Upper Austria |
| Region | Innviertel |
| Municipality | Tarsdorf |
| Named for | 6th-century nobleman named Focko |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 106 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 5121 Tarsdorf |
| Area code | 07940 |
| Licence plate | BR |
Fugging (German: [ˈfʊkɪŋ] ), spelled Fucking until 2021, is an Austrian village in the municipality of Tarsdorf, located in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria. It is 33 km (21 mi) north of Salzburg and 4 km (2.5 mi) east of the Inn river, which forms part of the German border.
Despite a population of only 106 in 2020, the village has drawn attention in the English-speaking world for its former name, which was spelled the same as an inflected form of the vulgar English-language word "fuck".[1][2] Its road signs were a popular visitor attraction and were often stolen by souvenir-hunting vandals until 2005, when they were modified to be theft-resistant. A campaign to change the village's name to Fugging was rejected in 2004 but succeeded in late 2020.[3][4]
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