Bennwil
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Bennwil is a municipality in the district of Waldenburg in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Bennwil
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Bennwil 080.JPG
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Bennwil Flag.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Bennwil COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Basel-Landschaft
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BL
- Swiss town.district
- Waldenburg
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 4431
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2882
- Swiss town.area
- 6.51
- Swiss town.elevation
- 515
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Diegten, Eptingen, Hölstein, Langenbruck, Niederdorf, Oberdorf
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Bennwil
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Waldenburg District
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 623
- Area
- 6.53
- Elevation
- 517
- Shares border with
- Hölstein
- Official website
- www.bennwil.ch
- Image
- Bennwil 080.JPG
- Dialing code
- 061
- Licence plate code
- BL
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- Commons category
- Bennwil
- postal code
- 4431
- native label
- Bennwil
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/2882
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Heritage sites of national significance
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
- Education
- References
- External links
Bennwil is a municipality in the district of Waldenburg in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
==History== Bennwil is first mentioned in 1218 as Bendewilere. A mention of the village that claimed to be from 1189 is believed to be a fake.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bennwil” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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