Zwingen
Sign in to saveAlso known as Zwingen BL
Zwingen is a municipality in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Zwingen
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Zwingen-Bergfried-Kapelle-Holzbruecke.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Coat of arms of Zwingen.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Basel-Landschaft
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BL
- Swiss town.district
- Laufen
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 4222
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2793
- Swiss town.area
- 4.62
- Swiss town.elevation
- 341
- Swiss town.website
- zwingen.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Blauen, Brislach, Dittingen, Laufen, Nenzlingen
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Zwingen
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Laufen District
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 2399
- Area
- 4.61
- Elevation
- 341
- Body of water
- Birs
- Shares border with
- Dittingen
- Official website
- www.zwingen.ch
- Image
- Schloss-Zwingen.jpg
- Dialing code
- 061
- Licence plate code
- BL
Show 4 more facts
- postal code
- 4222
- Commons category
- Zwingen
- P8168
- Principal Point
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/2793
Sources (9)
via Wikidata · CC0
~10 min read
Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Sights
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
- Transport
- Education
- References
- External links
Zwingen is a municipality in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
==Geography== thumb|Aerial view from 300 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1922) Zwingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 33.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 38.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 25.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 2.6% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.2% is unproductive land.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zwingen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations