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Langenthal
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Langenthal is a town and a municipality in the district of Oberaargau in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2010 the municipality of Untersteckholz merged into the Langenthal. On 1 January 2021 the former municipality of Obersteckholz merged into Langenthal.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Langenthal
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Langenthal 039.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Building in the old town of Langenthal
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Langenthal COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Langenthal Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Oberaargau
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 4900-4902
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0329
- Swiss town.area
- 17.2
- Swiss town.elevation
- 481
- Swiss town.website
- www.langenthal.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Thomas Rufener
- Swiss town.mayor_asof
- March 2014
- Swiss town.mayor_party
- SVP
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Stadtpräsident
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Langenthal
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of Berne
- Official language
- Swiss High German
- Population
- 15624
- Area
- 17.23
- Elevation
- 481
- Body of water
- Langete
- Shares border with
- Roggwil
- Official website
- www.langenthal.ch
- Image
- Langenthal 039.jpg
- Dialing code
- 062
- Licence plate code
- BE
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- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Langenthal, Switzerland
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/329
- Commons category
- Langenthal
- twinned administrative body
- Neviano
- topic's main category
- Category:Langenthal
- time of earliest written record
- 0861-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Langenthal
- postal code
- 4900
- native label
- Langenthal
- replaces
- Obersteckholz
- different from
- Langenthal
- P8168
- Gaz
Sources (11)
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- History
- Obersteckholz
- Geography
- Coat of Arms
- Demographics
- Heritage sites of national significance
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
- Education
- Transportation
- Sport
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Langenthal is a town and a municipality in the district of Oberaargau in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2010 the municipality of Untersteckholz merged into the Langenthal. On 1 January 2021 the former municipality of Obersteckholz merged into Langenthal.
Langenthal is an educational, cultural, and economic center for the region of Oberaargau.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Langenthal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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