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Meride

village and former municipality in Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland
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Summary

Meride is a former municipality of Switzerland[1]. Meride ranks in the top 7% of former municipality of switzerland entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (102 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Mendrisio[3]
  • Country: Switzerland[4]
  • Instance of: village[5], Ortsteil[6]
  • Official language: Italian[7]
  • Postal code: 6866[8]
  • Commons category: Meride[9]
  • Licence plate code: TI[10]
  • Local dialing code: 091[11]
  • Official website: http://www.meride.ch[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Meride[13]
  • Replaced by: Mendrisio[14]
  • Heritage designation: Swiss townscape worthy of protection[15]
  • Official name: Meride[16]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Meride, Switzerland[17]
  • Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Meride, Switzerland[18]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Meride, Switzerland[19]
  • Elevation above sea level: 580 m[20]
  • Area: 7.5 km²[21]
  • Has list: Liste von Persönlichkeiten aus Meride[22]

Why It Matters

Meride has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Meride is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Switzerland

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Historicized municipal directory of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . gisos.bak.admin.ch. Retrieved . gisos.bak.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['als', 'ceb', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'it', 'lmo', 'ms', 'nl', 'nn', 'pt', 'rm'
    Official name → {'lang': 'it', 'text': 'Meride'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||mul */ source for position, default label, official name from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  2. 9w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → A61053
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Verbaalpina id: A61053, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/263620|batch #263620]]"
  3. 14w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39320|batch #39320]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  4. 20w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Heritage designation → Swiss townscape worthy of protection
    Country → —
    Elevation above sea level → {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+580'}
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Mendrisio
    + 21 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||5 */ Cleanup: remove wikimedia refs; split multiple reference URLs ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
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