Graben is a municipality in the district of Augsburg, in the German state of Bavaria. It lies in the Swabian region of Bavaria, within the administrative district of Swabia (Regierungsbezirk Schwaben), of which Augsburg is one of the principal districts.
As a municipality (Gemeinde), Graben is one of the smaller local administrative units that make up the district of Augsburg, a district surrounding the city of Augsburg in southern Bavaria. Municipalities of this kind form the lowest tier of local government in Germany and typically comprise one or more named settlements.
Graben shares its name with several other places in Germany and elsewhere, but the municipality described here is specifically the one located in the Augsburg district of Bavaria.