Oktoberfest celebrations

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The original Munich beer festival Oktoberfest has inspired numerous similar events using the name Oktoberfest around the world, many of which were founded by German immigrants or their descendants.

In North America, there are major celebrations at Alpine Village in Torrance, California; La Crosse, Wisconsin; Big Bear City, California; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Appleton, Wisconsin; Addison, Texas; Shiner, Texas; Muenster, Texas (their version is called "Germanfest" and is held in April); Helen, Georgia; Newport, Rhode Island; Irondequoit, New York; Hermann, Missouri; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Hickory, North Carolina; Campbell, California; Denver, Colorado; and the Fremont neighborhood in Seattle, WA; among many. Minster, OH also has an Oktoberfest.

Several cities claim to host the largest Oktoberfest outside of Germany, such as Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (700,000+ visitors [1]), Blumenau, Brazil (600,000+ visitors [2]), and Cincinnati, Ohio (500,000+ visitors,[3]), .

In Australia, the universities are notorious in their celebrations of Oktoberfest every year, and as students graduate and move on, this has rolled over into pubs and restaurants in the university areas.

In Brazil, several southern cities, populated by German people in the 19th and 20th centuries, have their own Oktoberfest, the largest being in the aforementioned Blumenau, Santa Catarina.