Sense District
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district in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
Key facts
- Country
- Switzerland
- Canton
- Fribourg
- Capital
- Tafers
- Total
- 265.3 km (102.4 sq mi)
- Density
- 168.1/km (435.3/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Website
- http://www.fr.ch/pref/de/pub/psi/index.cfm
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Bezirk Sense
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of Fribourg
- Contains
- Zumholz
- Capital
- Tafers
- Population
- 46081
- Area
- 265.3
- Elevation
- 770
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.sensebezirk.ch
- Licence plate code
- FR
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Encyclopedic overview
Sense District (German: Sensebezirk; French: District de la Singine [distʁi(kt) d(ə) la sɛ̃ʒin]; Arpitan: District de la Singena [diʃˈtʁi də la ʃɛ̃ˈdzəna] ) is one of the seven administrative districts of the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland, and the only completely German-speaking one. It is named after the Sense river, which forms the majority of its eastern border with the canton of Bern.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sense District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.