Canton of Solothurn
Olten District
Olten

Olten

Olten is a town in the canton of Solothurn in and capital of the district of the same name. Olten grew into a town during the Middle Ages at the location of a bridge over the .
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  • Type: Town with 17,300 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Olten SO”
  • Postal code: 4600

Places of Interest

Highlights include Municipal library Olten and City tower (1521, 17th c.).

Library
Photo: Geosketch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Tower
Photo: Gestumblindi, CC0.

Church
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Trimbach and Starrkirch-Wil.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Gösgen in the canton of Solothurn in .

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Olten in the canton of Solothurn in .

Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the district of Olten in the canton of Solothurn in . is situated 2½ km west of Olten.

Olten

Latitude
47.34966° or 47° 20′ 59″ north
Longitude
7.90379° or 7° 54′ 14″ east
Population
17,300
Elevation
406 metres (1,332 feet)
IATA airport code
ZJU
United Nations Location Code
CH OLT
Open location code
8FV98WX3+VG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1388479447
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2659297
Wiki­data ID
Q68129
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Olten” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Olten”
  • Albanian: “Olten”
  • Albanian: “Olteni”
  • Arabic: “أولتن”
  • Aragonese: “Olten”
  • Armenian: “Օլտեն”
  • Arpitan: “Olten”
  • Asturian: “Olten”
  • Basque: “Olten”
  • Bavarian: “Olten”
  • Belarusian: “Ольтэн”
  • Breton: “Olten”
  • Catalan: “Olten”
  • Cebuano: “Olten (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Olten”
  • Chinese: “Olten”
  • Chinese: “奥尔滕”
  • Chinese: “奧爾滕”
  • Chuvash: “Ольтен”
  • Corsican: “Olten”
  • Croatian: “Olten”
  • Czech: “Olten”
  • Danish: “Olten”
  • Dutch: “Olten”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “أولتن”
  • Esperanto: “Olten”
  • Estonian: “Olten”
  • Finnish: “Olten”
  • French: “Olte”
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  • Friulian: “Olten”
  • Galician: “Olten”
  • German: “Olten”
  • Gilaki: “اولتان (پارس‌آباد)”
  • Gilaki: “اولتان”
  • Hebrew: “אולטן”
  • Hungarian: “Olten”
  • Icelandic: “Olten”
  • Ido: “Olten”
  • Indonesian: “Olten”
  • Interlingua: “Olten”
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  • Irish: “Olten”
  • Italian: “Olten”
  • Japanese: “オルテン”
  • Kazakh: “Ольтен”
  • Kongo: “Olten”
  • Korean: “올텐”
  • Kurdish: “Olten”
  • Ligurian: “Olten”
  • Limburgan: “Olten”
  • Lithuanian: “Oltenas”
  • Lombard: “Olten”
  • Low German: “Olten”
  • Luxembourgish: “Olten”
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  • Malay: “Olten”
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  • Narom: “Olten”
  • Neapolitan: “Olten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Olten”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Olten”
  • Norwegian: “Olten”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Olten”
  • Persian: “اولتان”
  • Picard: “Olten”
  • Piemontese: “Olten”
  • Polish: “Olten”
  • Portuguese: “Olten”
  • Pushto: “اولتن”
  • Romanian: “Olten”
  • Romansh: “Olten”
  • Russian: “Ольтен”
  • Sardinian: “Olten”
  • Scots: “Olten”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Olten”
  • Serbian: “Olten”
  • Serbian: “Олтен”
  • Sicilian: “Olten”
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  • Slovak: “Olten”
  • Slovenian: “Olten”
  • Spanish: “Olten”
  • Swahili: “Olten”
  • Swedish: “Olten”
  • Swiss German: “Oute”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Olten”
  • Turkish: “Olten”
  • Ukrainian: “Ольтен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Olten”
  • Uzbek: “Olten”
  • Venetian: “Olten”
  • Vietnamese: “Olten”
  • Vlaams: “Olten”
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  • Waray (Philippines): “Olten”
  • Welsh: “Olten”
  • Wolof: “Olten”
  • Zulu: “Olten”
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