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Bremgarten District

Bremgarten district is a Swiss district in the Canton of Aargau, corresponding to the valley of the river Reuss and BUNZ in the area known as the Freiamt.

Brugg District

Brugg district has an area, as of 1997 from 149.29 km 2 57.64 sq Mi. In this area, 42.6% is used for agricultural purposes, and 41.3% is forested. The rest of the land, 14.1% exhausted. It is located around the river Aare and Reuss. In the Northe ...

Kulm District

Kulm district is a district in the Canton of Aargau, Switzerland. It is located West of lake Hallwil and covers parts of the Wyna and Suhre valley. In major cities Unterkulm, the largest municipality Reinach. This district consists of 17 municipa ...

Laufenburg District

Laufenburg district is a district of the Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, essentially consisting of the upper fricktal valley in the Aargau Jura South of the Rhine. Its capital is the town of Laufenburg. It has a population 32.552.

Muri District

Muri district is a district in the Swiss Canton of Aargau with the administrative capital of Muri. It covers the Central and southern part of Freiamt and has a population of 36.252.

Zofingen District

Zofingen district is a district in the Swiss Canton of Aargau. It is located in the southwestern part of the Canton. Seat Zofingen. The largest municipality the population of Oftringen, the smallest-Wiliberg. It has a population of 71.780.

Oberegg District

City district is a district in the Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden in Switzerland. It includes two small exclave of the Canton, a few miles North-East from the rest of Appenzell Innerrhoden.

Laufen District

Laufen district or Laufental district is one of five districts of the largely German-speaking Canton of Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland. Its capital is the town of Laufen. Until 1994 it was a district of the Canton of Bern, one of the seven histori ...

Liestal District

Liestal district is one of five districts of the largely German-speaking Canton of Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland. The town of Liestal serves as the capital of both the district of Liestal and the Canton of Basel-Landschaft. It has a population of ...

Sissach District

Sissach district is one of five districts of the largely German-speaking Canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It has a population 35.912. The district occupies the Western part of Basel-country, bordering the neighbouring cantons of Aargau ...

Waldenburg District

Waldenburg district is one of five districts of the largely German-speaking Canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. The area is located to the South of Basel-country, bordering the Canton of Solothurn. Its capital is the town of Waldenburg. It ...

Bumpliz-Oberbottigen

Bumpliz-Oberbottigen is a Stadtteil of Bern, Switzerland. It is located to the West of the city centre and consists of the Quartiere Bumpliz, Oberbottigen, Stockacker, Bethlehem and brünnen. Most recently developed district of Bern Bumpliz-Oberbo ...

Broye District

Broye district is one of seven districts of the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, lying in the immediate vicinity of lake neuchâtel. On its territory is non-contiguous and Broye divided into four parts, three of which exist as exclaves aren from t ...

Glane District

Glan district is one of seven districts in the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It has a population 24.337.

Gruyere District

Gruyere is one of seven districts of the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It has a population of 55.726. Its capital is Bulle.

See District, Fribourg

To see or Lac district is one of seven districts of the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Lying to the North of the Canton, the district is bilingual. Its territory enclaves the two Bernese municipalities of Munchenwiler and Clavaleyres, while i ...

Sense District

The sense district is one of seven administrative districts in the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland, and the only completely German-speaking one. It is named after the river sense, which forms most of its Eastern border with the Canton of Bern.

Veveyse District

Veveyse district is one of seven districts in the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It has a population 18.831.

Betschwanden

Betschwanden is first recorded in 1240 in the phrase in Beswando. Until 1395 Betschwanden was obliged to pay tithes and taxes Säckingen Abbey. At the same time, it was part of the parish of Glarus. The village Church was built in Romanesque style ...

Haslen, Glarus

Haslen is first mentioned in 1289 as a Burchard von Hasle. Of July 1, 2006, Haslen municipality included the neighbouring municipalities of Leuggelbach and Nidfurn. On 1 January 2011, Haslen itself merged into the new municipality of Glarus süd.

Linthal, Glarus

Linthal is a village and a former municipality in the city of bagnes and the Canton of Glarus in Switzerland. The village lies near the head of the valley of the lint and at the foot of the Klausen pass in the Canton of URI. It is the Terminus of ...

Luchsingen

Luchsingen is first mentioned in 1274 As Luchsingen. In 2004 the former municipalities Hatzingen and Diesbach was merged into the municipality of Luchsingen. On 1 January 2011 the enlarged municipality became part of the municipality of Glarus süd.

Ruti, Glarus

RUTI is first mentioned about 1340. Agriculture is the main industry in RUTI until the 19th century. However, from the 17th century, hand spinning of cotton was widespread. By 1770 it was reduced and the resulting impoverishment ended only with t ...

Ziegelbrucke

Ziegelbrucke is a village in Switzerland. Ziegelbrucke, together with the municipalities of Niederurnen in the Canton of Glarus and Schanis in the Canton of St. Gallen.

Delemont District

Delémont district is one of three districts in Jura, Switzerland. Its capital, and the Canton, in the town of Delémont. The district is almost entirely French-speaking and has a population 38.590.

Franches-Montagnes District

The franches-Montagnes district is one of three districts in Jura, Switzerland. Its capital is the city of Saignelegier. The French-speaking district has a population of 10.389.

Porrentruy District

Porrentruy district is one of three districts in Jura, Switzerland. Its capital is the city of Porrentruy. The French-speaking district has a population 24.440.

Entlebuch District

Entlebuch district is one of six districts of the Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. Administrative center-the village of Schupfheim. Entlebuch district roughly corresponds to the basin of the river Kleine Emma. The district got its name from the vi ...

Hochdorf District

The hochdorf district was one of the five Amtern, or districts, of the German-speaking Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. Its capital is the city Hochdorf. It has a population of 73.398. In 2013 the name was changed from AMT Hochdorf in Hochdorf Wah ...

Lucerne District

For the district in Gatineau, Quebec, see Lucerne District Gatineau Lucerne district is the former AMT of the Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. It had a population of 176.710 and consisted of 18 municipalities in the city of Lucerne is the largest ...

Lucerne-Land District

Luzern-land district is one of two new Wahlkreis formed from the former Lucerne AMT in 2013 in the Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. It has a population of 101.972 and includes everything but the city of Lucerne from the old AMT.

Lucerne-Stadt District

Lucerne is a city district is one of two new Wahlkreis formed from the former Lucerne AMT in 2013 in the Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. It has a population of 81.691 and includes only Lucerne. ^a 1992 / 97 survey gives a total area of 216.65 km ...

Sursee District

Sursee district is one of five Amtern, or districts, of the German-speaking Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. Its capital is the town of Sursee. It has a population of 74.817. In 2013 the name was changed from AMT Sursee in Wahlkreis Sursee as part ...

Willisau District

Willisau district is one of five districts of the German-speaking Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. Its capital is the town of Willisau. It has a population of 54.219. In 2013, its name was changed from Willisau, AMT Willisau in Wahlkreis as part o ...

Hofe District

Hofe district is a district of the Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. The coat of arms in Hofe for pale red, two lions rampant contourny or and or, three lions pass field. It has a population 28.909. This district consists of three municipalities:

Schwyz District

Schwyz district is a district of the Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. It is the largest and most populous of the six districts of the Canton of Schwyz, which is about half of its surface and 40% of the population. It has a population 55.382. The ar ...

Brunnen

Brunnen is a resort on lake Lucerne in Switzerland, part Ingenbohl municipalities, 46°5944"N and 8°3617"East longitude Brunnen railway station, on the Gotthard, is served by hourly InterRegio trains, and by lines S2 in the city of Zug, which oper ...

Pfaffikon, Schwyz

Pfaffikon is the main town of the municipality of Freienbach in the Canton of Schwyz in Switzerland. Together with Wollerau, Pfaffikon is the chief town of the district Hofe and the center of the region of Ausserschwyz. The former farm town is kn ...

Ausserbinn

Ausserbinn is a former municipality in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland, and is now part of the municipality of Ernen. To register in St. Moritz, it was one of Switzerlands smallest municipalities with a population of only 41. The village covers ...

Ayer, Switzerland

Ayer is a village in the district of Sierre in the Swiss Canton of Valais. An independent municipality before, it merged on 1 January 2009 with neighboring Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint Jean, Saint Luc and Vissoie to form the municipality of Anniviers.

Chelin, Switzerland

Chelin is located on the slope of the hill of Chatelard, on the right side of the Rhone valley in the Canton of Valais. The village is located about 8 km from Sion, Sierre 8.5 km and 10.5 km from Crans-Montana.

Derborence

Derborence is a hamlet in the municipality of Lugano, in the Canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is located at 1.450 metres in an isolated valley on the southern slope of the Bernese Alps and is not permanently inhabited. Dearborns all sides surr ...

Euseigne

Eisen is a village in the Swiss Alps located in the Canton of Valais. The village is located in the Central part of the Canton, in dHerens Shaft to the South of Zion. It belongs to the municipality of Heremence Eisen lies at an altitude of 979 me ...

Findeln

Findeln is a group of hamlets above Zermatt in the Canton of Valais. They are located on the southern slopes of Sunnegga–Unterrothorn–Oberrothorn mountains. The main hamlet of Eggen and ze Gassen has, where there is a chapel. Both are easily acce ...

Saint-Pierre-de-Clages

Saint-Pierre-de-Clages is a village in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking part of the Canton of Valais in the municipality of Chamoson. In the village of Saint-Pierre-de-Clages was registered in the municipality of Chamoson, in 137 ...

Samstagern

Novosibirsk is a village in the municipality Richterswil in the district of Zurich, in the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland. Huttnersee is located in the village.

Feldbach, Switzerland

Feldbach is a village near Rapperswil, Switzerland. It is located on the Northern shore of lake Zurich and is part of the political municipality of Hombrechtikon. In the local dialect it is called Faldbach.

Feldmeilen

Feldmeilen is located in the district of Meilen in the Pfannenstiel region on the northwestern shore of lake Zurich Zurichsee between Zurich-Seefeld and Rapperswil. It is about 10 km from Zurich.

Kollbrunn

Kollbrunn is located in the district of Winterthur in the toss valley. Zell Kollbrunn refers to the urban area Northwest of the city of Winterthur. Neighboring communities Kyburg, Rikon im Tosstal, offices schlatt, Wildberg and Winterthur.

Tann, Switzerland

Tann is located in the zürcher Oberland, in the South of Durnten and geographically is part of the southern municipality RUTI. The river Jona flows through the Eastern Joweid and Tannertobel, in a small river valley.