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Encyclopedia > Rheinfelden
Coat of Arms Rheinfelden
Canton Aargau
District Rheinfelden
Coordinates  47°33′N 7°48′E
Population 10884   (December 2003)
Area 16.12 km²
Elevation 280 m
Postal code 4310
Mayor
Website www.rheinfelden.ch

Rheinfelden is a municipality in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland, seat of the district of Rheinfelden. It is located 15 km E of Basel and is part of the agglomeration. The origin of the name means the fields of the Rhine where the Rhine river is situated near the village. It is home of Feldschlösschen, the most popular beer in Switzerland. Image File history File links Rheinfelden-blason. ... 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 Switzerland. ... In contrast to centrally organised states, in the federally constituted Switzerland each Canton is completely free to decide its own internal organisation. ... The distict of Rheinfelden lies in the northwest of the canton of Aargau in Switzerland, in the Fricktal region. ... 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... 2003: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August _ September - October - November - December - → A timeline of events in the news for December, 2003. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... The metre (Commonwealth English) or meter (American English) (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ... 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... A mayor (from the Latin maÄ«or, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Aargau (German Aargau, French Argovie, Italian Argovia, Romansh Argovia, in English sometimes Argovia) is one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. ... The distict of Rheinfelden lies in the northwest of the canton of Aargau in Switzerland, in the Fricktal region. ... Location within Switzerland Basel (English traditionally: Basle , German: Basel , French Bâle , Italian Basilea ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (188,000 inhabitants in the canton of Basel-City as of 2004; the 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel... At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (German Rhein, French Rhin, Dutch Rijn, Romansch: Rein, Italian: Reno) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ...



Feldschlösschen


The Community of Rheinfelden



Municipalities of the district of Rheinfelden
Hellikon | Kaiseraugst | Magden | Mumpf | Fisibach | Full-Reuenthal | Möhlin | Oberumph | Olsberg | Rheinfelden | Schupfart | Stein | Wallbach | Wegenstetten | Zeiningen | Zuzgen
Canton of Aargau | Districts of Switzerland | Municipalities of the canton of Aargau

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