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Uster
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Uster (; , ) is a town and the capital of the Uster District in the Swiss canton of Zürich.
Uster is a town located in the Swiss canton of Zürich, where it serves as the administrative capital of the Uster District. It functions as an important regional center in this part of Switzerland.
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Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Uster
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality, town
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Uster - Kirchuster - Schloss Turm 2015-09-20 15-57-44.JPG
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Uster COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Uster Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Zürich
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-ZH
- Swiss town.district
- Uster
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 8610
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0198
- Swiss town.area
- 28.56
- Swiss town.elevation
- 462
- Swiss town.website
- www.uster.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Barbara Thalmann Stammbach
- Swiss town.mayor_asof
- July 2018
- Swiss town.mayor_party
- SPS
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Stadtpräsidentin
- Swiss town.list_of_mayors
- List of mayors of Uster
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Uster
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Uster District
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 36791
- Area
- 28.49
- Elevation
- 464
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Mönchaltorfer Aa
- Capital of
- Uster District
- Official website
- www.uster.ch
- Image
- Uster Panorama 2.JPG
- Dialing code
- 044
- Licence plate code
- ZH
- Flag
- flag
- Coat of arms
- coat of arms
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- Commons category
- Uster
- postal code
- 8613
- twinned administrative body
- Prenzlau
- topic's main category
- Category:Uster
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Uster
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Uster
- contains settlement
- Sulzbach
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/198
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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- Demographics
- Weather
- Wakker Prize
- Education
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- Transportation
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- External links
Uster (; , ) is a town and the capital of the Uster District in the Swiss canton of Zürich.
The importance of the town of Uster has grown considerably with the construction of the S-Bahn network of the Zürich Transport Network. With over 36,000 inhabitants, it is the third largest town in the canton and is one of the twenty largest towns in Switzerland. Along with Wetzikon, it forms one of the two centres of the Zürcher Oberland. Uster is located next to a lake, called Greifensee.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Uster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (20)
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2 mapped locations