Laufen
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municipality in the canton Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
Key facts
- Country
- Switzerland
- Canton
- Basel-Landschaft
- District
- Laufen
- Total
- 11.37 km (4.39 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 354 m (1,161 ft)
- Density
- 454.9/km (1,178/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- CH-BL
- Surrounded by
- Bärschwil (SO), Brislach , Dittingen , Grindel (SO), Liesberg , Röschenz , Wahlen bei Laufen , Zwingen
- Twin towns
- Laufen (Germany)
- Website
- laufen-bl.ch
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Laufen
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Laufen District
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 5618
- Area
- 11.4
- Elevation
- 351
- Body of water
- Birs
- Capital of
- Laufen District
- Shares border with
- Liesberg
- Official website
- www.laufen-bl.ch
- Image
- Birs laufen.jpg
- Dialing code
- 061
- Licence plate code
- BL
- Patron saint
- Martin of Tours
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- Commons category
- Laufen, Switzerland
- twinned administrative body
- Laufen
- postal code
- 4242
- P8168
- Blankenbach
- different from
- Laufen-Uhwiesen
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/2787
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Encyclopedic overview
Laufen ( German pronunciation: [ˈlaʊfn̩] ; French: Laufon [loːfɔ̃]; High Alemannic: Laufe) is a municipality and the capital of the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
Laufen is a principal train station for the surrounding area, connecting it to Basel.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Laufen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.