Please answer the following question: Information: - Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe. It includes 16 constituent states, covers an area of , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With about 82 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union. After the United States, it is the second most popular immigration destination in the world. Germany's capital and largest metropolis is Berlin. Other major cities include Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Dusseldorf. - Deutsche Bahn AG (abbreviated as "DB", "DB AG" or "DBAG") is a German railway company. Headquartered in Berlin, it is a private joint-stock company (AG), with the Federal Republic of Germany being its single shareholder. Deutsche Bahn describes itself as the second-largest transport company in the world, after the German postal and logistics company Deutsche Post / DHL, and is the largest railway operator and infrastructure owner in Europe. It carries about two billion passengers each year. - The Upper Palatinate is one of the seven administrative districts of Bavaria, Germany, located in the east of Bavaria. - Lower Bavaria is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany, located in the east of the state. - The Royal Bavarian Eastern Railway Company ( Koniglich privilegirte Actiengesellschaft der bayerischen Ostbahnen ) or Bavarian Ostbahn was founded in 1856 . Within just two decades it built an extensive railway network in the eastern Bavarian provinces of Upper Palatinate ( Oberpfalz ) and Lower Bavaria ( Niederbayern ) that had previously been largely undisturbed by the railway . Much of this network is still important for local and long distance rail traffic operated by the Deutsche Bahn today . - Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany as well as one of its constituent 16 states. With a population of approximately 3.5 million people, Berlin is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union. Located in northeastern Germany on the banks of rivers Spree and Havel, it is the centre of the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, which has about 6 million residents from more than 180 nations. Due to its location in the European Plain, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. Around one-third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers and lakes. - Bavaria is a federal state of Germany. Located in the German southeast with an area of 70,548 square kilometres (27,200 sq mi), Bavaria is the largest German state. Its territory comprises roughly a fifth of the total land area of Germany, and, with 12.9 million inhabitants, it is Germany's second most populous state. Munich, Bavaria's capital and largest city, is the third largest city in Germany. - Deutsche Post AG, operating under the trade name Deutsche Post DHL Group, is a German courier company and the world's largest. With its headquarters in Bonn, the corporation has 467,088 employees (FTE 421,270) in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide and generated revenue of 56.63 billion in 2010. Deutsche Post is the successor to the German mail authority Deutsche Bundespost, which was privatized in 1995. Currently, 21% of its shares are held by the state-owned KfW bank, 79% are freely floating; 65.6% of which are held by institutional and 13.4% by private investors. Since its privatization, Deutsche Post has significantly expanded its business area through acquisitions. Deutsche Post is listed in the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. Given the paragraphs above, decide what entity has the relation 'instance of' with 'transport company'.
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bavarian eastern railway company