Aarau
capital of Canton Aargau, Switzerland
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Summary
Aarau is a Municipality of Switzerland[1]. Aarau ranks in the top 1% of municipality of switzerland entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,161 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Member of: SGV-ACS[3]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Aarau District[4]
- Country: Switzerland[5]
- Located in or next to body of water: Aare[6], Suhre[7]
- Instance of: administrative centre[8], cantonal capital of Switzerland[9], city of Switzerland[10]
- Official language: Swiss High German[11]
- Shares border with: Erlinsbach[12], Küttigen[13], Biberstein[14], Unterentfelden[15], Suhr[16], Buchs[17]
- Twinned administrative body: Neuchâtel[18], Delft[19], Reutlingen[20]
- Postal code: 5000[21], 5001[22], 5004[23]
- Part of: RPV Region Aarau[24]
- Commons category: Aarau[25]
- Licence plate code: AG[26]
- Local dialing code: 062[27]
- Inception: 1240[28]
- Coordinate location: 47.3923, 8.0446[29]
- Official website: https://www.aarau.ch/[30]
- Topic's main category: Category:Aarau[31]
- Population: 20,103[32], 20,687[33], 20,408[34], 20,013[35], 7830[36], 21,268[37], 21,503[38], 22,710[39]
- External data available at URL: https://geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/4001[40]
- Described by source: Sytin Military Encyclopedia[41], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[42], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[43], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[44], Otto's encyclopedia[45], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[46], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[47], Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae et Valesiae[48], The Encyclopedia Americana[49], Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[50], Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition[51], Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[52], Meyer’s Universum, Fünfzehnter Band[53]
- Replaces: Rohr[54]
- Capital of: Canton of Aargau[55], Aarau District[56]
- Heritage designation: Swiss townscape worthy of protection[57]
- Official name: Aarau[58]
- List of monuments: list of cultural properties in Aarau[59]
Why It Matters
Aarau has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[60] Aarau is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[61]