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Wilen
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Also known as Wilen TG, Wilen bei Wil, Wilen bei Wil TG

Wilen is a municipality in the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. Prior to Thurgau's 1998 reorganisation, Wilen was known as Wilen bei Wil and was part of Rickenbach bei Wil, which was then broken up into the municipalities of Rickenbach and Wilen.

Key facts

Swiss town.subject_name
Wilen
Swiss town.municipality_type
municipality
Swiss town.image_photo
Wilen view.jpg
Swiss town.imagepath_coa
Wilen-blazon.svg
Swiss town.canton
Thurgau
Swiss town.iso code region
CH-TG
Swiss town.district
Münchwilen
Swiss town.postal_code
9535
Swiss town.municipality_code
4786
Swiss town.area
2.27
Swiss town.elevation
552
Swiss town.population
2029
Swiss town.populationof
December 2007
Swiss town.popofyear
2007
Swiss town.website
wilen.ch
Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
Kirchberg (SG), Rickenbach, Sirnach, Wil (SG)

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Wilen is a municipality in the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. Prior to Thurgau's 1998 reorganisation, Wilen was known as Wilen bei Wil and was part of Rickenbach bei Wil, which was then broken up into the municipalities of Rickenbach and Wilen.

==Geography== Wilen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 20.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 20.7% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes and or 2.6% is unproductive land.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wilen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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