Thun

Thun
Thun in 2012
Thun in 2012
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Thun is located in Switzerland
Thun
Thun
Thun is located in Canton of Bern
Thun
Thun
Coordinates: 46°46′N 7°38′E / 46.767°N 7.633°E / 46.767; 7.633
CountrySwitzerland
CantonBern
DistrictThun
Government
 • ExecutiveGemeinderat
with 5 members
 • MayorStadtpräsident (list)
Raphael Lanz SVP/UDC
(as of February 2014)
 • ParliamentStadtrat
with 40 members
Area
 • Total
21.60 km2 (8.34 sq mi)
Elevation
(Railway station)
560 m (1,840 ft)
Highest elevation
(Dürrenbergwald)
1,172 m (3,845 ft)
Lowest elevation
(Aare at Lerchenfeld)
552 m (1,811 ft)
Population
 (31 December 2018)[2]
 • Total
43,734
 • Density2,000/km2 (5,200/sq mi)
DemonymGerman: Thuner(in)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)
3600-3645
SFOS number0942
ISO 3166 codeCH-BE
Surrounded byAmsoldingen, Heiligenschwendi, Heimberg, Hilterfingen, Homberg, Schwendibach, Spiez, Steffisburg, Thierachern, Uetendorf, Zwieselberg
Websitewww.thun.ch
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Thun (French: Thoune) is a town and a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located where the Aare flows out of Lake Thun (Thunersee), 30 kilometres (19 miles) southeast of Bern.

As of December 2018 the municipality has almost about 45,000 inhabitants and around 80,000 live in the agglomeration.

Besides tourism, machine and precision instrument engineering, the largest garrison in the country, the food industry, armaments and publishing are of economic importance to Thun.

The official language of Thun is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.

  1. ^ a b "Arealstatistik Standard - Gemeinden nach 4 Hauptbereichen". Federal Statistical Office. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  2. ^ . Federal Statistical Office https://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/pxweb/de/. Retrieved 15 June 2020. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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