Basel-Landschaft
Laufen District
Laufen

Laufen

Laufen is a municipality and the capital of the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in . is a principal train station for the surrounding area, connecting it to .
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  • Type: Village with 4,860 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Laufen BL” and “Laufen, Switzerland”
  • Postal code: 4242

Places of Interest

Highlights include Laufental Museum and Laufen railway station.

Museum
Photo: Wm1bl, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Railway station
Photo: Katrin Gilger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a railway station in the municipality of Laufen, in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. It is an intermediate stop on the Basel–Biel/Bienne line and is served by local and long-distance trains.

Church
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dittingen and Röschenz.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in .

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in in the Canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in . is situated 2½ km southeast of Laufen.

Laufen

Latitude
47.42241° or 47° 25′ 21″ north
Longitude
7.502° or 7° 30′ 7″ east
Population
4,860
Elevation
354 metres (1,161 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CH LFN
Open location code
8FV9CGC2+XR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29971201
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2660001
Wiki­data ID
Q68363
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Laufen” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Laufen”
  • Basque: “Laufen”
  • Breton: “Laufen”
  • Catalan: “Laufen”
  • Cebuano: “Laufen”
  • Chinese: “Laufen”
  • Chinese: “劳芬”
  • Chinese: “勞芬”
  • Chuvash: “Лауфен”
  • Croatian: “Laufen”
  • Czech: “Laufen”
  • Dutch: “Laufen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لوفين”
  • Esperanto: “Laufen BL”
  • French: “Laufen BL”
  • French: “Laufon”
  • Galician: “Laufen”
  • German: “Laufen BL”
  • German: “Laufen Stadt”
  • German: “Laufen Vorstadt”
  • German: “Laufen”
  • German: “Laufon”
  • Hebrew: “לאופן”
  • Hungarian: “Laufen”
  • Irish: “Laufen”
  • Italian: “Laufen”
  • Japanese: “ラウフェン”
  • Kazakh: “Лауфен”
  • Kurdish: “Laufen, Swîsre”
  • Lombard: “Laufen”
  • Malay: “Laufen”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Laufen (Sūi-se)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Laufen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Laufen i Basel-Landschaft”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Laufen i Sveits”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Laufen”
  • Norwegian: “Laufen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Laufen”
  • Persian: “لافن”
  • Polish: “Laufen”
  • Portuguese: “Laufen (Suíça)”
  • Portuguese: “Laufen”
  • Romanian: “Laufen BL”
  • Romanian: “Laufen”
  • Russian: “Лауфен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Laufen, Švicarska”
  • Slovak: “Laufen”
  • Spanish: “Laufen”
  • Swedish: “Laufen, Basel-Landschaft”
  • Swedish: “Laufen”
  • Swiss German: “Laufe”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Laufen BL”
  • Turkish: “Laufen”
  • Ukrainian: “Лауфен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Laufen”
  • Uzbek: “Laufen”
  • Venetian: “Laufen (Svisara)”
  • Venetian: “Laufen”
  • Volapük: “Laufen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Laufen, Swiza”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Laufen”
  • Welsh: “Laufen”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Laufen”. Photo: Gestumblindi, Public domain.