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Fugging

Also known as Fucking

village in Upper Austria

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Fugging is a small village located in Upper Austria that gained international attention due to its unusual name, which has been the subject of jokes and curiosity among English speakers. In 2021, the village officially changed its name to "Vucking" to reduce incidents of name-related vandalism and theft of road signs.

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Population: 106
Elevation: 478
Dialing code: 06278

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Commons category: Fugging (Tarsdorf)
P8168: Gmina Kruklanki
postal code: 5121
native label: Fugging
time of earliest written record: 1070-00-00

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Fugging ( German: [ˈfʊgɪŋ] ), spelt 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 profanity fuck. 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.