Encyclopedia > Municipalities of the canton of Aargau
These are the 231 municipalities of the canton of Aargau, Switzerland (as of April 2004): The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ... Aargau (German Aargau, French Argovie, Italian Argovia, Romansh Argovia, in English sometimes Argovia) is one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The canton of Lucerne lies south of the canton of Aargau, Zürich and Zug to the east.
The canton of Aargau is one of the least mountainous Swiss cantons, forming part of a great table-land, to the north of the Alps and the east of the Jura, above which rise low hills.
In 1798 the Bernese portion became the canton of Aargau of the Helvetic Republic, the remainder forming the canton of Baden.