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Encyclopedia > Bülach
Bülach
Canton Zurich
District Bülach
Coordinates  47°31′ N 8°32′ E (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=47_31_N_8_32_E_region:CH_type:city(14,096))
Postal code 8180
Population 14,096   (December 2003)
Area 16.09 km²
Elevation 416 m
Mayor
Website www.buelach.ch

Bülach is a small town in the north of the Canton of Zurich. The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ... The Swiss canton of Zürich (German: Kanton Zürich) has a population of about 1. ... In contrast to centrally organised states, in the federally constituted Switzerland each Canton is completely free to decide its own internal organisation. ... This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (vertically) and longitude (horizontally); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which... Here are postal codes of Switzerland and Liechtenstein: Zone 1 1000s are found in Lausanne, Lavaux and parts of Morges, 1100s in parts of Morges, 1200s are in Geneva and parts of La Côte, Vaud, 1300s in La Vallée, 1500s are found in Clavaleyres, the 1700s are found... 2003: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August _ September - October - November - December - → A timeline of events in the news for December, 2003. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... For other uses of the word, see Elevation In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or possibly some other fixed point). ... The metre (American spelling: meter), symbol: m, is the basic unit of distance (or of length, in the parlance of the physical sciences) in the International System of Units. ... A mayor (from the Latin maīor, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ... The Swiss canton of Zürich (German: Kanton Zürich) has a population of about 1. ...


One of its most important institutions and its biggest employer (600 employees) is the regional hospital Spital Bülach with 200 acute beds. Another important employer is the traditional glass producer Vetropack. The physics definition of a glass is a uniform amorphous solid material, usually produced when a suitably viscous molten material cools very rapidly, thereby not giving enough time for a regular crystal lattice to form. ...


External links

  • Bülach (http://www.buelach.ch)
  • Spital Bülach (http://www.spitalbuelach.ch)
  • Vetropack (http://www.vetropack.ch/de/)


 

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