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river in Switzerland

Key facts

Country
Switzerland
Cantons
St. Gallen , Thurgau , Zürich
Location
Wildhaus
Coordinates
47°14′00″N 9°20′29″E / 47.233391°N 9.341527°E / 47.233391; 9.341527
Length
135 km (84 mi)
Basin size
1,696 km (655 sq mi)
Progression
‹See Tfd› Rhine → North Sea
Left
Murg
Right
Necker , Sitter

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
river
Elevation
351
Image
Thur im Toggenburg.JPG
Length
134.7
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Commons category
Thur
mouth of the watercourse
Rhine
waterbody number
CH/285
drainage basin
Rhine basin
discharge
47
watershed area
1696
different from
Thur
catalog code
12498
located in the statistical territorial entity
Eastern Switzerland
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Encyclopedic overview

Wooden Thur bridge in Lütisburg Railway bridge over the river between Wil SG and Schwarzenbach Historic Thur bridge in Bischofszell Railway bridge between Thalheim-Altikon and Ossingen Railway bridge over the river near Andelfingen The Thur ( Swiss Standard German pronunciation: [ˈtuːr]) is a 135-kilometre-long (84 mi) river in north-eastern Switzerland and a tributary of the High Rhine (Hochrhein).

Name

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

On the map

3 mapped locations