Olten
Olten is a municipality, a town in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland and the 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 Aare.
- Type: Town with 17,300 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Olte”, “Olten SO”, and “Olteni”
- Postal code: 4600
Places of Interest
Highlights: Municipal library Olten and City tower (1521, 17th c.).
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Trimbach and Starrkirch-Wil.
Trimbach
Village
Starrkirch-Wil
Village
Wangen bei Olten
Village
Olten
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Olten, Olten District, Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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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
UN/LOCODE
CH OLT
Open location code
8FV98WX3+VG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Olten” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Olten”
- Albanian: “Olten”
- 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: “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: “Olten”
- Friulian: “Olten”
- Galician: “Olten”
- German: “Olten”
- Gilaki: “اولتان (پارسآباد)”
- Gilaki: “اولتان”
- Hebrew: “אולטן”
- Hungarian: “Olten”
- Icelandic: “Olten”
- Ido: “Olten”
- Indonesian: “Olten”
- Interlingua: “Olten”
- Interlingue: “Olten”
- Irish: “Olten”
- Italian: “Olten”
- Japanese: “オルテン”
- Jèrriais: “Olten”
- Kazakh: “Ольтен”
- Kongo: “Olten”
- Korean: “올텐”
- Kurdish: “Olten”
- Ligurian: “Olten”
- Limburgan: “Olten”
- Lithuanian: “Oltenas”
- Lombard: “Olten”
- Low German: “Olten”
- Luxembourgish: “Olten”
- Malagasy: “Olten”
- Malay: “Olten”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Olten”
- Minangkabau: “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”
- Silesian: “Olten”
- Slovak: “Olten”
- Slovenian: “Olten”
- Spanish: “Olten”
- Swahili: “Olten”
- Swedish: “Olten”
- Swiss German: “Olten”
- Swiss German: “Oute”
- Turkish: “Olten”
- Ukrainian: “Ольтен”
- Upper Sorbian: “Olten”
- Urdu: “اولٹن”
- Uzbek: “Olten”
- Venetian: “Olten”
- Vietnamese: “Olten”
- Vlaams: “Olten”
- Volapük: “Olten”
- Walloon: “Olten”
- Waray (Philippines): “Olten”
- Welsh: “Olten”
- Wolof: “Olten”
- Zulu: “Olten”
- “Olten”
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