Canton	Bern
District	Thun
Coordinates	46°46′ N 7°38′ E
Population	41450   (December 2003)
Area	21.6 km²
Elevation	560 m
Postal code	3600-3608
Mayor	Hans-Ulrich von Allmen (SPS)
Website	www.thun.ch

Location within Switzerland

Thun (French Thoune) is a town in the canton of Bern in Switzerland with about 41,540 inhabitants (2003). It is located where the River Aare flows out of Lake Thun (Thunersee). Besides tourism, machine and apparatus engineering, the largest garrison of the country, the food industry and publishing are of economic importance to Thun. Download high resolution version (795x1000, 48 KB) Coat of arms of Thun File links The following pages link to this file: Thun ... The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ... The Swiss canton of Bern is bilingual (German: Kanton Bern; French Canton de Berne) and has a population of about 947,000 (8,2% French-speaking and 84% German-speaking). ... 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... 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. ... Elevation has several related meanings: Geography The elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or possibly some other fixed point). ... The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International dUnités). ... 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. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1803x1473, 115 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1803x1473, 115 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Swiss canton of Bern is bilingual (German: Kanton Bern; French Canton de Berne) and has a population of about 947,000 (8,2% French-speaking and 84% German-speaking). ... For other possible meanings, see AAR, a disambiguation page The Aar (in German Aare) is the greatest river which both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland. ... Lake Thun (German: Thunersee) is a lake in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland. ... A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Beaches make popular tourist resorts Beaches make popular tourist resorts Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ... Garrison House, built 1675, Dover, NH, USA In the military, garrison is the collective term for the body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it, but now often simply using it as a home base. ...

In the 7th century, Thun was mentioned in the chronicle of Frankish monk Fredgar. Around 1190 Bertold V von Zähringen buillt a castle in Thun and expanded the city. In 1264 Thun received state rights and in 1384 the town was bought by the canton of Bern. // Events Islam starts in Arabia, the Quran is written, and Syria, Iraq, Persia, North Africa and Central Asia convert to Islam. ... Statue of Charlemagne (also called Karl der Große, Charles the Great) in Frankfurt, Germany. ... Zähringen is the name of an old and influential German noble family, taken from the castle and village of that name. ...

Sights

• 12th century castle with an adjacent history museum
• 16th century Rathaus (townhall)
• Lake Thun and the view of the Alps

External links

• Official city website
• Tourist information

	Municipalities of Thun administrative district
	Amsoldingen | Blumenstein | Buchholterberg | Eriz | Fahrni | Forst | Heiligenschwendi | Heimberg | Hilterfingen | Höfen | Homberg | Horrenbach-Buchen | Längenbühl | Oberhofen am Thunersee | Oberlangenegg | Pohlern | Schwendibach | Sigriswil | Steffisburg | Teuffenthal | Thierachern | Thun | Uebeschi | Uetendorf | Unterlangenegg | Wachseldorn | Zwieselberg Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The municipality of Thierachern lies in the western part of the district of Thun in the Canton of Berne in Switzerland, 5 km away from downtown Thun. ... Uetendorf is a medium-sized municipality (population ca. ...
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