Zwingen
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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
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Zwingen
- Population
- 2399
- Area
- 4.61
- Elevation
- 341
- Official website
- www.zwingen.ch
- Image
- Schloss-Zwingen.jpg
- Dialing code
- 061
- Licence plate code
- BL
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- postal code
- 4222
- Commons category
- Zwingen
- P8168
- Principal Point
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/2793
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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.
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