Wahlen
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Wahlen is a municipality in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Wahlen
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Picswiss BL-64-06.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Wappen Wahlen.png
- Swiss town.canton
- Basel-Landschaft
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BL
- Swiss town.district
- Laufen
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 4246
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2792
- Swiss town.area
- 5.42
- Swiss town.elevation
- 403
- Swiss town.website
- wahlen.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Breitenbach (SO), Brislach, Büsserach (SO), Grindel (SO), Laufen
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Wahlen
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Laufen District
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 1462
- Area
- 5.41
- Elevation
- 417
- Shares border with
- Brislach
- Official website
- www.wahlen.ch
- Image
- Picswiss BL-64-06.jpg
- Dialing code
- 061
- Licence plate code
- BL
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- Commons category
- Wahlen
- postal code
- 4246
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/2792
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Wahlen is a municipality in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
==Geography== thumb|left|Wahlen village thumb|Aerial view (1953) Wahlen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 33.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 11.3% is settled (buildings or roads).
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