Augst
Augst is a municipality in the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. It was known as Augusta Raurica in Roman times.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 902 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Augst BL” and “CH2822”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Augusta Raurica and Kaiseraugst railway station.
Augusta Raurica
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Augusta Raurica is probably the best preserved Roman city North of the Alps. It is nestled inside the greater Basel urban area, in Switzerland and has been transformed into an open-air museum.
Kaiseraugst railway station
Railway station
Photo: Mattes, CC BY 2.0 de.
Kaiseraugst railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Kaiseraugst, in the Swiss canton of Aargau. It is an intermediate stop on the Bözberg line and is served by local trains only.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Liestal and Rheinfelden.
Liestal
Photo: Umschattiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Liestal is an industrial town with a cobbled-street Old Town in Switzerland, not far from Basel. It is the capital of the Basel-Landschaft canton, and was home to about 14,000 people in 2018.
Rheinfelden
Photo: V4nco, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rheinfelden is a town divided between Switzerland and Germany with the Rhine flowing through the town and making up the border.
Pratteln
Town
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pratteln is a municipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland, located in the district of Liestal.
Augst
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Liestal District, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.5338° or 47° 32′ 2″ northLongitude
7.7206° or 7° 43′ 14″ eastPopulation
902Elevation
266 metres (873 feet)Open location code
8FV9GPMC+G6OpenStreetMap ID
node 240120521OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7285117Wikidata ID
Q66515
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Augst” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Augst”
- Asturian: “Augst”
- Basque: “Augst”
- Breton: “Augst”
- Bulgarian: “Аугст”
- Catalan: “Augst”
- Cebuano: “Augst (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Augst”
- Chinese: “Augst”
- Chinese: “奥格斯特”
- Chinese: “奧格斯特”
- Dutch: “Augst”
- Esperanto: “Augst”
- French: “Augst”
- German: “Augst BL”
- German: “Augst”
- German: “Baselaugst”
- Hungarian: “Augst”
- Irish: “Augst”
- Italian: “Augst”
- Japanese: “アウグシュト”
- Kazakh: “Аугст”
- Latin: “Augusta Raurica”
- Lombard: “Augst”
- Malay: “Augst”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Augst”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Augst”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Augst”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Augst”
- Polish: “Augst”
- Portuguese: “Augst”
- Romanian: “Augst”
- Russian: “Аугст”
- Spanish: “Augst”
- Swedish: “Augst”
- Swiss German: “Augscht”
- Tosk Albanian: “Augst”
- Turkish: “Augst”
- Ukrainian: “Аугст”
- Upper Sorbian: “Augst”
- Uzbek: “Augst”
- Venetian: “Augst”
- Volapük: “Augst”
- Waray (Philippines): “Augst”
- Welsh: “Augst”
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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 “Augst”. Photo: Dimelina, CC BY-SA 3.0.