Lachen

Lachen is a municipality in in the in . Lachen has about 9,530 residents.
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  • Type: Village with 9,530 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Lachen SZ” and “Lachen, Switzerland”
  • Postal code: 8853
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Holy Cross Catholic Parish Church and Town Hall.

Church
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Government building
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is a government building.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the municipality of Lachen in the Swiss canton of , near Obersee. The station is located on the Lake Zurich left-bank railway line, on the border of fare zones 997 and 998 of the Ostwind Fare Network.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Seestatt and Altendorf.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Village
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is a municipality in in the in .

Village
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is a municipality in in the in .

Lachen

Latitude
47.19238° or 47° 11′ 33″ north
Longitude
8.85238° or 8° 51′ 9″ east
Population
9,530
Elevation
412 metres (1,352 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CH LHN
Open location code
8FVC5VR2+XX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31940811
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2660075
Wiki­data ID
Q67100
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Lachen” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Lachen”
  • Arabic: “لاخن - سويسرا”
  • Basque: “Lachen”
  • Belarusian: “Ляхэн”
  • Breton: “Lachen”
  • Catalan: “Lachen”
  • Cebuano: “Lachen (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Chinese: “拉亨”
  • Chuvash: “Лахен”
  • Czech: “Lachen”
  • Danish: “Lachen”
  • Dutch: “Lachen”
  • Esperanto: “Lachen SZ”
  • Faroese: “Lachen”
  • French: “Lachen SZ”
  • French: “Lachen”
  • German: “Lachen SZ”
  • German: “Lachen”
  • Hebrew: “לאכן”
  • Hungarian: “Lachen”
  • Irish: “Lachen”
  • Italian: “Lachen SZ”
  • Italian: “Lachen”
  • Japanese: “ラッヘン”
  • Kalaallisut: “Lachen”
  • Kazakh: “Лахен”
  • Korean: “라헨”
  • Kurdish: “Lachen, Schwyz”
  • Kurdish: “Lachen”
  • Lombard: “Lachen”
  • Macedonian: “Лахен”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lachen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lachen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lachen”
  • Persian: “لشان، شوئیز”
  • Persian: “لشان”
  • Piemontese: “Lachen”
  • Polish: “Lachen (Szwajcaria)”
  • Polish: “Lachen”
  • Portuguese: “Lachen”
  • Russian: “Лахен”
  • Slovak: “Lachen”
  • Spanish: “Lachen”
  • Swedish: “Lachen, Schweiz”
  • Swedish: “Lachen”
  • Swiss German: “Lache SZ”
  • Swiss German: “Lachen SZ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Lachen SZ”
  • Turkish: “Lachen”
  • Ukrainian: “Лахен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Lachen”
  • Urdu: “لاچین، سوئٹزرلینڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Lachen”
  • Uzbek: “Laxen”
  • Venetian: “Lachen (Svisara)”
  • Venetian: “Lachen”
  • Volapük: “Lachen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lachen, Switzerland”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lachen”
  • Welsh: “Lachen”

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