Lachen
Lachen is a municipality in March District in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland. Lachen has about 9,530 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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: Rapperswil
Places of Interest
Highlights include Holy Cross Catholic Parish Church and Town Hall.
Lachen railway station
Railway station
Lachen railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Lachen in the Swiss canton of Schwyz, 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.
Altendorf
Village
Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Altendorf is a municipality in March District in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland.
Galgenen
Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Galgenen is a municipality in March District in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland.
Lachen
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Lachen, March District, Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.19238° or 47° 11′ 33″ northLongitude
8.85238° or 8° 51′ 9″ eastPopulation
9,530Elevation
412 metres (1,352 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH LHNOpen location code
8FVC5VR2+XXOpenStreetMap ID
node 31940811OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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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”
- 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”
- Uzbek: “Lachen”
- Uzbek: “Laxen”
- Venetian: “Lachen (Svisara)”
- Venetian: “Lachen”
- Volapük: “Lachen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lachen, Switzerland”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lachen”
- Welsh: “Lachen”
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