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Osco

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

Osco is a former municipality of Switzerland[1]. Osco has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Faido[3]
  • Country: Switzerland[4]
  • Instance of: human settlement[5], village[6]
  • Postal code: 6763[7]
  • Commons category: Osco[8]
  • Licence plate code: TI[9]
  • Local dialing code: 091[10]
  • Official website: https://www.osco.ch[11]
  • Replaced by: Faido[12]
  • Heritage designation: Swiss townscape worthy of protection[13]
  • Official name: Osco[14]
  • Elevation above sea level: 1157 m[15]
  • Area: 11.9 km²[16]

Related Entities

Switzerland

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Historicized municipal directory of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . api.isos.bak.admin.ch. Retrieved . api.isos.bak.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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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', 'ca', 'ceb', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'it', 'lmo', 'nl', 'nn',
    Official name → {'lang': 'it', 'text': 'Osco'}
    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 → A60930
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Verbaalpina id: A60930, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/263620|batch #263620]]"
  3. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://www.osco.ch
    Instance of → —
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 46.4933, 'lon': 8.782}
    Replaced by → Faido
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/43521|batch #43521]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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