Laufen
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municipality in the canton Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
Key facts
- Country
- Switzerland
- Canton
- Basel-Landschaft
- District
- Laufen
- Total
- 11.37 km (4.39 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 354 m (1,161 ft)
- Density
- 454.9/km (1,178/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- CH-BL
- Surrounded by
- Bärschwil (SO), Brislach , Dittingen , Grindel (SO), Liesberg , Röschenz , Wahlen bei Laufen , Zwingen
- Twin towns
- Laufen (Germany)
- Website
- laufen-bl.ch
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Laufen ( German pronunciation: [ˈlaʊfn̩] ; French: Laufon [loːfɔ̃]; High Alemannic: Laufe) is a municipality and the capital of the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
Laufen is a principal train station for the surrounding area, connecting it to Basel.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Laufen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.