Canton of Uri

The canton of Uri is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland and a founding member of the . It is located in . The canton's territory covers the valley of the between the St.
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  • Type: State with 36,800 residents
  • Description: canton of Switzerland
  • Also known as: “CH062”, “Kanton Uri”, “UR”, “Uri”, and “Uri, Switzerland”
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Zwing Uri Castle and Arnisee.

Castle
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zwing Uri is a ruined medieval castle north of Amsteg, today in the territory of the municipality of in the canton of Uri in . It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Photo: Simonizer, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a in the Canton of Uri, . It can be reached by gondola lift from Amsteg and Intschi.

Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Erstfeld and Silenen.

Village
Photo: Manfred Heyde, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the canton of Uri in .

Village
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the canton of Uri in .

Hamlet
Photo: Waldteufel78, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a hamlet.

Canton of Uri

Latitude
46.7864° or 46° 47′ 11″ north
Longitude
8.642° or 8° 38′ 31″ east
Population
36,800
Elevation
1,913 metres (6,276 feet)
Abbreviation
“UR”
Open location code
8FRCQJPR+HR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240108092
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2658226
Wiki­data ID
Q12404
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Canton of Uri” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kanton Uri”
  • Albanian: “Kantoni Uri”
  • Amharic: “ኡሪ”
  • Arabic: “أوري”
  • Arabic: “كانتون أوري”
  • Aragonese: “Cantón d’Uri”
  • Armenian: “Ուրի”
  • Arpitan: “Ouri”
  • Arpitan: “Quenton d’Ouri”
  • Asturian: “Cantón d’Uri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Uri”
  • Balinese: “Kanton Uri”
  • Basque: “Uri kantonamendua”
  • Belarusian: “Кантон Уры”
  • Belarusian: “Уры”
  • Bengali: “উরি”
  • Bosnian: “Uri”
  • Breton: “Kanton Uri”
  • Bulgarian: “Ури”
  • Catalan: “UR”
  • Catalan: “Uri”
  • Cebuano: “Kanton Uri”
  • Chinese: “Uri Chiu”
  • Chinese: “乌里州”
  • Chinese: “烏里州”
  • Chuvash: “Ури”
  • Croatian: “Uri”
  • Czech: “Uri”
  • Danish: “Kanton Uri”
  • Dutch: “Uri”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كانتون اورى”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Urio”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Urio”
  • Esperanto: “Urio”
  • Estonian: “Uri kanton”
  • Finnish: “Uri”
  • French: “canton d’Uri”
  • French: “Canton d’Uri”
  • French: “UR”
  • French: “Uri”
  • Galician: “Cantón de Uri”
  • Georgian: “ურის კანტონი”
  • German: “Kanton Uri”
  • German: “UR”
  • German: “Uri”
  • Greek: “Καντόνι του Ούρι”
  • Greek: “καντόνιο του Ούρι”
  • Gujarati: “ઉરી”
  • Hausa: “Uri”
  • Hebrew: “אורי”
  • Hebrew: “קנטון אורי”
  • Hindi: “उड़ी”
  • Hindi: “ऊरी कैन्टन”
  • Hungarian: “Uri kanton”
  • Icelandic: “Uri”
  • Iloko: “Kanton ti Uri”
  • Iloko: “Uri”
  • Indonesian: “Kanton Uri”
  • Interlingue: “Canton de Uri”
  • Irish: “cantún Uri”
  • Irish: “Uri”
  • Italian: “canton Uri”
  • Italian: “Canton Uri”
  • Italian: “Uri”
  • Japanese: “ウーリ州”
  • Javanese: “Uri”
  • Kannada: “ಯುರಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Ури”
  • Kirghiz: “Ури”
  • Korean: “우리 주”
  • Korean: “우리”
  • Korean: “우리주”
  • Kurdish: “Uri (kanton)”
  • Kurdish: “Uri”
  • Ladin: “Cianton de Uri”
  • Latin: “Urania”
  • Latvian: “Ūrī kantons”
  • Latvian: “Ūrī”
  • Limburgan: “Uri”
  • Lithuanian: “Uris”
  • Lombard: “Canton Uri”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kanton Uri”
  • Luxembourgish: “UR”
  • Luxembourgish: “Uri”
  • Macedonian: “Ури”
  • Malay: “Uri”
  • Marathi: “उरी”
  • Mazanderani: “اوری”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Uri Chiu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Uri”
  • Northern Sami: “Uri”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Uri”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Uri”
  • Norwegian: “Uri”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Canton d’Uri”
  • Oromo: “Uri”
  • Ossetian: “Ури”
  • Panjabi: “ਉਰੀ”
  • Persian: “اوری”
  • Persian: “کانتون اوری”
  • Polish: “Uri”
  • Portuguese: “Cantão de Uri”
  • Portuguese: “UR”
  • Portuguese: “Uri, Suíça”
  • Portuguese: “Uri”
  • Pushto: “اوري (کانتون)”
  • Pushto: “اوري”
  • Romanian: “cantonul Uri”
  • Romanian: “Cantonul Uri”
  • Romansh: “Chantun Uri”
  • Romansh: “Uri”
  • Russian: “Ури”
  • Scots: “Canton o Uri”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Uri”
  • Serbian: “Кантон Ури”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Uri”
  • Sicilian: “Canton Uri”
  • Sinhala: “යූරි”
  • Slovak: “Uri”
  • Slovenian: “Kanton Uri”
  • Slovenian: “UR”
  • Slovenian: “Uri”
  • Somali: “Uri”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آوری”
  • Spanish: “Cantón de Uri”
  • Spanish: “UR”
  • Spanish: “Uri”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Uri”
  • Swedish: “Uri”
  • Swiss German: “Üri”
  • Tajik: “Ури”
  • Tamil: “உரி”
  • Tatar: “Ури”
  • Telugu: “ఉరి”
  • Thai: “รัฐอูรี”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kanton Uri”
  • Turkish: “canton d’Uri”
  • Turkish: “UR”
  • Turkish: “Urania”
  • Turkish: “Uri kantonu”
  • Turkish: “Uri”
  • Ukrainian: “Урі”
  • Urdu: “کینٹن اوری”
  • Uzbek: “Uri”
  • Venetian: “Canton Uri”
  • Vietnamese: “Bang Uri”
  • Vietnamese: “UR”
  • Vietnamese: “Uri”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Uri”
  • Welsh: “Uri”
  • Western Panjabi: “اری”
  • Wu Chinese: “乌里州”
  • Yue Chinese: “烏里州”

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