A place name can refer to more than one territorial level.
Altötting names both a town and the district of the same name. The question explicitly asks for a district. You are therefore looking neither for Bavaria’s capital nor for just any well-known Bavarian town, but for the matching district among the offered names.
You can learn the connection step by step: Altötting → Upper Bavaria → Bavaria. Upper Bavaria is an administrative region within the Free State, not another federal state. This connection is more precise than simply guessing that a place name sounds southern German.
The other three answers
Each incorrect name can be assigned to another federal state.
Prignitz
Prignitz is a district in Brandenburg. It therefore does not match the question about Bavaria.
Rhein-Sieg-Kreis
Rhein-Sieg-Kreis belongs to North Rhine-Westphalia. It is not a Bavarian district.
Nordfriesland
Nordfriesland lies in Schleswig-Holstein. The name identifies a district, but in the wrong federal state for this question.
Do not confuse a district with the state capital.
Altötting district administration is based in Altötting. That does not make the town the state capital, which is Munich. For questions about administrative places, always check which level is being asked about.
For this choice, you do not need to memorise every Bavarian district or its population. Official directories provide a reliable check when a district name is unfamiliar.
Districts · Altötting · Government of Upper Bavaria ↗Altötting → Upper Bavaria → Bavaria.
A district within Bavaria is not the same as the entire Free State.
Three words for this question
- der Landkreisdistrict
- A local government area containing several municipalities and its own district administration.
- der Regierungsbezirkadministrative region
- A level of state administration within Bavaria.
- gleichnamigof the same name
- This describes the town of Altötting and the district of Altötting.