Thun
Thun (French: Thoune) is a town and a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located where the Aare flows out of Lake Thun (Thunersee), 30 kilometres (19 miles) southeast of Bern.
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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 | 43,734 |
| • 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 SFSO statistics |
As of December 2018 the municipality has almost about 45,000 inhabitants and around 80,000 live in the agglomeration.
Besides tourism, machine and precision instrument engineering, the largest garrison in the country, the food industry, armaments and publishing are of economic importance to Thun.
The official language of Thun is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.
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