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Also known as Langenthal BE

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
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
different from
Langenthal
P8168
Gaz
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Encyclopedic overview

15 sections
Contents
  • 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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