Aarau
Aarau is the German-speaking capital city of the northern Swiss canton of Aargau. It lies south of the German border, east of Berne and Basel, north of Lucerne, and west of Zurich.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 21,200 residents
- Description: capital of Canton Aargau, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Aarau AG” and “city of Aarau”
- Postal codes: 5000 and 5004
Places of Interest
Highlights include Aarau railway station and Stadion Brügglifeld.
Aarau railway station
Railway station
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Aarau railway station serves the municipality of Aarau, capital town of the canton of Aargau, Switzerland. Opened in 1856, it is owned and operated by Swiss Federal Railways.
Stadion Brügglifeld
Pitch
Photo: Patrick haller, Public domain.
Stadion Brügglifeld is a multi-purpose stadium in Aarau, Switzerland. It is primarily used for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Aarau. The current capacity is 9,249 seats, which include 1499 covered seats.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buchs and Erlinsbach.
Buchs
Village
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Buchs is a municipality in the district of Aarau of the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is located near the river Suhre and borders with the municipalities of Aarau, Rupperswil and Suhr.
Erlinsbach
Village
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Erlinsbach is a municipality in the district of Aarau of the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Küttigen
Village
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Küttigen is a municipality in the district of Aarau of the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Aarau
Latitude
47.3927° or 47° 23′ 34″ northLongitude
8.0444° or 8° 2′ 40″ eastPopulation
21,200Elevation
389 metres (1,276 feet)IATA airport code
ZDAUnited Nations Location Code
CH AAROpen location code
8FVC92VV+3QOpenStreetMap ID
node 29886774OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2661881Wikidata ID
Q14274
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Aarau” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Aarau”
- Albanian: “Aarau”
- Arabic: “أراو”
- Armenian: “Արաու”
- Arpitan: “Arava”
- Azerbaijani: “Arau”
- Basque: “Aarau”
- Belarusian: “Аарау”
- Belarusian: “Аараў”
- Breton: “Aarau”
- Bulgarian: “Аарау”
- Cajun French: “Aarau”
- Catalan: “Aarau”
- Cebuano: “Aarau (kapital sa kanton)”
- Cebuano: “Aarau (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Aarau”
- Chechen: “Арау”
- Chinese: “Aarau”
- Chinese: “亞牢”
- 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”
- Hebrew: “אראו”
- Hungarian: “Aarau”
- Icelandic: “Aarau”
- Indonesian: “Aarau”
- Irish: “Aarau”
- Italian: “Aarau”
- Japanese: “アーラウ”
- Kazakh: “Арау”
- Korean: “아라우”
- Kurdish: “Aarau”
- Ladino: “Aarau”
- Latin: “aravia”
- 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”
- Ossetian: “Арау”
- Pampanga: “Aarau”
- Pennsylvania German: “Aarau”
- Persian: “ارو، سوئیس”
- Piemontese: “Aarau”
- Polish: “Aarau”
- Portuguese: “Aarau”
- 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”
- South Azerbaijani: “ارو، سوئیس”
- Spanish: “Aarau”
- Swedish: “Aarau”
- Swiss German: “Aarau”
- Swiss German: “Aarou”
- Tatar: “Арау”
- Thai: “อาเรา”
- Tosk Albanian: “Aarau”
- 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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