Thun

Thun
Municipality
Thun in 2012
Coat of arms
Location of Thun
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Coordinates: 46°46′N 7°38′E
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Bern
District	Thun
Government
• Executive	Gemeinderat with 5 members
• Mayor	Stadtpräsident (list) Raphael Lanz SVP/UDC (as of February 2014)
• Parliament	Stadtrat with 40 members
Area
• Total	21.60 km2 (8.34 sq mi)
Elevation (Railway station)	560 m (1,840 ft)
Highest elevation (Dürrenbergwald)	1,172 m (3,845 ft)
Lowest elevation (Aare at Lerchenfeld)	552 m (1,811 ft)
Population  (31 December 2018)
• Total	43,723
• Density	2,000/km2 (5,200/sq mi)
Demonym	German: Thuner(in)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)	3600-3645
SFOS number	0942
Surrounded by	Amsoldingen, Heiligenschwendi, Heimberg, Hilterfingen, Homberg, Schwendibach, Spiez, Steffisburg, Thierachern, Uetendorf, Zwieselberg
Website	www.thun.ch SFSO statistics

Thun (French: Thoune) is a city of the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The city has about 43,783 inhabitants (around 90,000 in the agglomeration), as of 31 December 2013.

It is located where the Aare flows out of Lake Thun (Thunersee), 30 km (19 mi) south of Berne.

Gallery

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  Thun
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  Castle Thun over City Hall Square
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  Lake Thun

Other websites

Media related to Thun at Wikimedia Commons

• Official Website of the city of Thun (in German)
• Thun in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.