Aarau

Aarau is the German-speaking capital city of the northern canton of Aargau. It lies south of the border, east of and , north of , and west of .
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Saippuakauppias, Public domain.
  • Town with about 22,700 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 380 metres (1,250 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code ZDA
  • Description: capital of Canton Aargau, Switzerland
  • Postal codes
    5000
    5004
  • Also known as
    “Aarau AG”
    “city of Aarau”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aarau railway station and Stadion Brügglifeld.
Voyager, CC BY-SA 3.0.
serves the municipality…
Patrick haller, Public domain.
is a multi-purpose stadium in Aarau, .
Sa-se, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Buchs and Erlinsbach.
LuFiLa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a municipality in the district of Aarau of the canton of in .
Voyager, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the district of Aarau of the canton of in .
LuFiLa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a municipality in the district of Aarau of the canton of in Switzerland.

Aarau

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Latitude
47.3927° or 47° 23′ 34″ north
Longitude
8.0444° or 8° 2′ 40″ east
UN/LOCODE
CH AAR
Open location code
8FVC92VV+3Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29886774
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2661881
Wiki­data ID
Q14274

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Aarau” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Aarau”
  • Albanian: “Aarau”
  • Amharic: “አራው”
  • Arabic: “أراو”
  • Aragonese: “Aarau”
  • Armenian: “Արաու”
  • Arpitan: “Arava”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aarau”
  • Azerbaijani: “Arau”
  • Basque: “Aarau”
  • Belarusian: “Аарау”
  • Bengali: “আরাউ”
  • Breton: “Aarau”
  • Bulgarian: “Аарау”
  • Cajun French: “Aarau”
  • Catalan: “Aarau”
  • Cebuano: “Aarau (kapital sa kanton)”
  • Cebuano: “Aarau (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Aarau”
  • Chechen: “Арау”
  • Chinese: “阿劳”
  • Chinese: “阿勞”
  • Croatian: “Aarau”
  • Czech: “Aarau”
  • Danish: “Aarau”
  • Dutch: “Aarau”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اراو”
  • Esperanto: “Araŭo”
  • Estonian: “Aarau”
  • Finnish: “Aarau”
  • French: “Aarau”
  • Galician: “Aarau”
  • Georgian: “აარაუ”
  • German: “Aarau”
  • German: “Stadt Aarau”
  • Greek: “Άαραου”
  • Guarani: “Aarau”
  • Hausa: “Aarau”
  • Hebrew: “אראו”
  • Hindi: “आराऊ”
  • Hungarian: “Aarau”
  • Icelandic: “Aarau”
  • Indonesian: “Aarau”
  • Irish: “Aarau”
  • Italian: “Aarau”
  • Japanese: “アーラウ”
  • Javanese: “Aarau”
  • Kazakh: “Арау”
  • Kirghiz: “Аарау”
  • Korean: “아라우”
  • Kurdish: “Aarau”
  • Ladino: “Aarau”
  • Latin: “Aravia”
  • Latvian: “Ārava”
  • Lithuanian: “Arau”
  • Lombard: “Aarau”
  • Luxembourgish: “Aarau”
  • Macedonian: “Арау”
  • Malagasy: “Aargau”
  • Malay: “Aarau”
  • Marathi: “आराऊ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Aarau”
  • Mingrelian: “აარაუ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Aarau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aarau”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aarau”
  • Norwegian: “Aarau”
  • Novial: “Aarau”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Aarau”
  • Oromo: “Aarau”
  • Ossetian: “Арау”
  • Pampanga: “Aarau”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਰਾਉ”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Aarau”
  • Persian: “ارو، سوئیس”
  • Persian: “ارو”
  • Piemontese: “Aarau”
  • Polish: “Aarau”
  • Portuguese: “Aarau”
  • Pushto: “آراؤ”
  • Romanian: “Aarau”
  • Romansh: “Aarau”
  • Russian: “Аарау” (historical)
  • Russian: “Арау”
  • Scots: “Aarau”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Aarau”
  • Serbian: “Арау”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aarau”
  • Sicilian: “Aarau”
  • Slovak: “Aarau”
  • Slovenian: “Aarau”
  • Somali: “Aarau”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ارو، سوئیس”
  • Spanish: “Aarau”
  • Swahili: “Aarau”
  • Swedish: “Aarau”
  • Swiss German: “Aarau”
  • Swiss German: “Aarou”
  • Tajik: “Аарау”
  • Tatar: “Аарау”
  • Tatar: “Арау”
  • Thai: “อาเรา”
  • Turkish: “Aarau”
  • Ukrainian: “Аарау”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Aarau”
  • Urdu: “آراو”
  • Uzbek: “Aarau”
  • Venetian: “Aarau”
  • Vietnamese: “Aarau”
  • Volapük: “Aarau”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aarau”
  • Welsh: “Aarau”
  • Western Panjabi: “آراؤ”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿劳”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞牢”

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