Canton of Aargau

Aargau, more formally the Canton of Aargau, is one of the 26 cantons forming the . It is composed of eleven districts and its capital is .
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  • Type: State with 694,000 residents
  • Description: canton of Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Aargau”, “AG”, “Argovia”, “Canton of Argovia”, “CH033”, and “Kanton Aargau”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lenzburg Castle and Stapferhaus.

Castle
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is a castle located above the old part of the town of in the Canton of Aargau, Switzerland. It ranks among the oldest and most important of Switzerland.

Museum
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The in , Switzerland, was founded in 1960 as a place for encounters and intellectual debate.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the in the canton of Aargau. The station is located on the Heitersberg line, part of the Zurich to Olten main line, to the west of the junction with the Rupperswil–Immensee line and to the east of the junction with the Zofingen–Wettingen line.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brugg and Lenzburg.

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is a small town of about 11,000 people in the canton of Aargau located at the confluence of the Reuss, Aare, and Limmat Rivers, with the Aare flowing through the city's old town.

Town
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is a town in the central region of the canton of Aargau and is the capital of the . The town, founded in the Middle Ages, lies in the Seetal valley, about 3 kilometres south of the river.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in .

Canton of Aargau

Latitude
47.4124° or 47° 24′ 45″ north
Longitude
8.1948° or 8° 11′ 41″ east
Population
694,000
Elevation
398 metres (1,306 feet)
Abbreviation
“AG”
Open location code
8FVCC56V+XW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240054861
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2661876
Wiki­data ID
Q11972
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Canton of Aargau” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “AG”
  • Afrikaans: “Kanton Aargau”
  • Albanian: “Kantoni Aargau”
  • Amharic: “አርጋው”
  • Arabic: “أرجاو”
  • Arabic: “كانتون أرجاو”
  • Aragonese: “AG”
  • Aragonese: “Cantón d’Argovia”
  • Armenian: “Արգաու”
  • Arpitan: “AG”
  • Arpitan: “Argovia”
  • Arpitan: “Quenton d’Argovia”
  • Asturian: “AG”
  • Asturian: “Cantón d’Argovia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Arqau”
  • Balinese: “Kanton Aargau”
  • Basque: “AG”
  • Basque: “Argovia”
  • Bavarian: “AG”
  • Belarusian: “Ааргау (кантон)”
  • Belarusian: “Ааргау”
  • Belarusian: “Ааргаў”
  • Belarusian: “Аргау”
  • Belarusian: “кантон Ааргау”
  • Bengali: “আরগাও”
  • Bosnian: “Aargau”
  • Breton: “AG”
  • Breton: “Kanton Aargau”
  • Bulgarian: “Ааргау”
  • Cajun French: “Argovie”
  • Catalan: “AG”
  • Catalan: “Argòvia”
  • Cebuano: “Kanton Aargau”
  • Chinese: “Aargau Chiu”
  • Chinese: “阿尔高州”
  • Chinese: “阿爾膠州”
  • Chinese: “阿爾高州”
  • Chuvash: “Аргау”
  • Corsican: “AG”
  • Croatian: “Aargau”
  • Croatian: “AG”
  • Czech: “Aargau”
  • Czech: “AG”
  • Danish: “Aargau”
  • Danish: “AG”
  • Dutch: “Aargau”
  • Dutch: “AG”
  • Esperanto: “AG”
  • Esperanto: “Argovio”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Argovio”
  • Estonian: “Aargau kanton”
  • Estonian: “AG”
  • Finnish: “Aargau”
  • Finnish: “AG”
  • French: “Aargau”
  • French: “AG”
  • French: “Argovie”
  • French: “canton d’Argovie”
  • French: “Canton d’Argovie”
  • Friulian: “AG”
  • Galician: “AG”
  • Galician: “Argovia”
  • Georgian: “აარგაუს კანტონი”
  • German: “Aargau”
  • German: “AG”
  • German: “Kanton Aargau”
  • Greek: “Άαργκαου”
  • Greek: “Αργοβία”
  • Greek: “Καντόνι του Άαργκαου”
  • Gujarati: “એરાગાઉ”
  • Hausa: “Aargau”
  • Hebrew: “ארגאו”
  • Hebrew: “קנטון ארגאו”
  • Hebrew: “קנטון ארגוביה”
  • Hindi: “आरगाउ कैन्टन”
  • Hungarian: “Aargau kanton”
  • Hungarian: “AG”
  • Icelandic: “Aargau”
  • Icelandic: “AG”
  • Ido: “AG”
  • Iloko: “Aargau”
  • Indonesian: “AG”
  • Indonesian: “Kanton Aargau”
  • Interlingua: “AG”
  • Interlingua: “Canton de Argovia”
  • Interlingue: “AG”
  • Interlingue: “Canton de Aargau”
  • Irish: “AG”
  • Irish: “cantún Aargau”
  • Italian: “Aargau”
  • Italian: “AG”
  • Italian: “Argovia”
  • Italian: “Canton Argovia”
  • Italian: “Cantone Argovia”
  • Japanese: “アールガウ州”
  • Javanese: “Kanton Aargau”
  • Kannada: “ಅರ್ಗೌ”
  • Kazakh: “Аргау”
  • Kirghiz: “Аргау”
  • Kongo: “AG”
  • Korean: “아르가우 주”
  • Korean: “아르가우”
  • Korean: “아르가우주”
  • Kurdish: “Aargau”
  • Ladin: “Canton Aargau”
  • Ladin: “Cianton Aargau”
  • Latin: “Argovia”
  • Latvian: “Ārgava”
  • Latvian: “Ārgavas kantons”
  • Ligurian: “AG”
  • Limburgan: “Aargau”
  • Limburgan: “AG”
  • Lithuanian: “Argau”
  • Lombard: “Canton Argovia”
  • Low German: “AG”
  • Luxembourgish: “Aargau”
  • Luxembourgish: “AG”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kanton Aargau”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kanton Argovie”
  • Macedonian: “Аргау”
  • Malagasy: “AG”
  • Malay: “Aargau”
  • Malay: “AG”
  • Marathi: “आर्गाउ”
  • Mazanderani: “آرگائو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Aargau Chiu”
  • Minangkabau: “AG”
  • Narom: “AG”
  • Neapolitan: “AG”
  • Northern Frisian: “Aargau”
  • Northern Sami: “Aargau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aargau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “AG”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aargau”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “AG”
  • Norwegian: “Aargau”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “AG”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Canton d’Argòvia”
  • Oromo: “Aargau”
  • Ossetian: “Аргау”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਰਗਾਉ”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Canton Aargau”
  • Persian: “آرگاو”
  • Persian: “کانتون آرگاو”
  • Picard: “AG”
  • Piemontese: “AG”
  • Piemontese: “Canton d’Argòvia”
  • Polish: “AG”
  • Polish: “Argowia”
  • Portuguese: “AG”
  • Portuguese: “Argóvia”
  • Pushto: “آرګاو”
  • Romanian: “AG”
  • Romanian: “Argovia”
  • Romanian: “cantonul Aargau”
  • Romanian: “Cantonul Aargau”
  • Romansh: “AG”
  • Romansh: “Argovia”
  • Romansh: “Chantun Argovia”
  • Russian: “Ааргау” (historical)
  • Russian: “Аргау”
  • Russian: “кантон Ааргау” (historical)
  • Russian: “кантон Аргау”
  • Sardinian: “AG”
  • Scots: “Aargau”
  • Scots: “AG”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Aargau”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “AG”
  • Serbian: “AG”
  • Serbian: “Кантон Аргау”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aargau”
  • Sicilian: “AG”
  • Sicilian: “Canton Argovia”
  • Sinhala: “ආර්ගෞ”
  • Slovak: “Aargau”
  • Slovak: “AG”
  • Slovenian: “Aargau”
  • Slovenian: “AG”
  • Slovenian: “Kanton Aargau”
  • Somali: “Aargau”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آرقاو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آرگاو”
  • Spanish: “AG”
  • Spanish: “Argovia”
  • Spanish: “Cantón de Argovia”
  • Swahili: “Aargau”
  • Swahili: “AG”
  • Swedish: “Aargau”
  • Swedish: “AG”
  • Swiss German: “AG”
  • Swiss German: “Kanton Aargou”
  • Tajik: “Аргау”
  • Tamil: “ஆர்காவு”
  • Tatar: “Аргау кантоны”
  • Tatar: “Аргау кантуны”
  • Telugu: “ఆరాగావ్”
  • Thai: “รัฐอาร์เกา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kanton Aargau”
  • Turkish: “Aargau”
  • Turkish: “AG”
  • Turkish: “Argovia”
  • Turkish: “Argovie”
  • Turkish: “canton d’Argovie”
  • Ukrainian: “Ааргау”
  • Ukrainian: “Аарґау”
  • Ukrainian: “кантон Аарґау”
  • Urdu: “آرگاؤ”
  • Urdu: “کینٹن آرگاؤ”
  • Uzbek: “Aargau”
  • Venetian: “AG”
  • Venetian: “Canton Argovia”
  • Vietnamese: “Aargau”
  • Vietnamese: “AG”
  • Vietnamese: “Kanton Aargau”
  • Vlaams: “AG”
  • Volapük: “AG”
  • Walloon: “AG”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aargau”
  • Welsh: “Aargau”
  • Welsh: “AG”
  • Western Panjabi: “آرگاو”
  • Wolof: “AG”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿尔高州”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿爾膠州”
  • Zulu: “AG”

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