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Grandson District

Grandson was a district of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The seat of the district was the town of Grandson. On 1 September 2006 the district was dissolved and all the municipalities joined the new Jura-North Vaudois District French: District ...

La Vallee District

La Vallee is a former district of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, consisting of three municipalities in the Vallee de Joux. The seat of the district was the village of Le Sentier. La Vallee has been merged into Jura-North Vaudois District. The f ...

Moudon District

Moudon was a district in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The seat of the district was the town of Moudon. The district consisted of 32 municipalities and had an area of 119.61 km² with a population of 12273 inhabitants End of 2003.

Pays-dEnhaut District

Pays-dEnhaut District is a district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The seat of the district is the town of Chateau-dOex. Three municipalities are located within the district: Chateau-dOex, Rossiniere, and Rougemont. A bird appears in the c ...

Rolle District

Rolle District was a district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The seat of the district was the city of Rolle until January 1, 2008. It is now part of Nyon District, except the town of Allaman which is now part of the Morges District.

Vallee de Joux

The Vallee de Joux is a valley of the Jura Mountains mainly in the Swiss Canton of Vaud. The valley also continues into France at its higher, southwestern, end. Located 30 miles north of Geneva and northwest of Lausanne, its mean elevation is ove ...

Vevey District

Vevey District was a district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The seat of the district was the city of Vevey. It has been dissolved on 1 January 2008 and merged into the new Riviera-Pays-dEnhaut district.

Albisrieden

Albisrieden is a quarter in the district 9 in Zurich. It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1934. The quarter has a population of 17.226 distributed on an area of 4.6 km 2 1.8 sq mi.

Au, Zurich

Au is a village in the municipality Wadenswil in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. First mentioned in the year 1130 as "Naglikon" and 1316 as "Owe", Au belongs politically to the urban area of the south-eastern city o ...

Aussersihl

Aussersihl is a district in the Swiss city of Zurich. Known officially as District number 4, the district is known as colloquially Chreis Cheib, cheib being the Zurich German word for an animal cadaver. It earned the name as the area historically ...

Bahnhofstrasse

Bahnhofstrasse is Zurichs main downtown street and one of the worlds most expensive and exclusive shopping avenues. In 2011, a study named the Bahnhofstrasse the most expensive street for retail property in Europe, and the third most expensive wo ...

Baldern Castle

Baldern Castle is a former castle in the municipality of Stallikon and the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. The remains of the castle comprise a set of earthworks, situated on the Albis ridge at some 810 metres above sea level and about 4 kilomet ...

Enge (Zurich)

Enge was incorporated into Zurich in 1893, along with 11 other formerly independent municipalities. In 2011, the population was 8.597. Enge, which is only 2.4 km 2, is the smallest neighbourhood in district 2.

Escher Wyss (Zurich)

Escher Wyss is a quarter in the district 5 of Zurich, centered on the Escher-Wyss-Platz square. Escher Wyss was formerly a part of Aussersihl municipality, which was incorporated into Zurich in 1893. The quarter has a population of 2.727 distribu ...

Esslingen, Switzerland

Esslingen is a village in the municipality of Egg, Switzerland, in the canton of Zurich. It is located in the Pfannenstiel region, approximately 15 km southeast of Zurich. In the local dialect it is called Esslinge. The population is 1752 as of 2 ...

Fluntern

Fluntern is a quarter in the district 7 in Zurich, Switzerland. It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893. The quarter has a population of 7.325 distributed on an area of 2.84 km².

Friesenberg

Situated at the southern slope of the Uetliberg mountain, Friesenberg was formerly a part of Wiedikon municipality, which was incorporated into Zurich in 1893.

Furttal

Furttal is the name of a valley region in Switzerland between Lagern and Altberg in the Dielsdorf district of the canton of Zurich. The areas name stems from the German word for ford, or furt, and is named after the crossing over the Limmat in th ...

Hard (Zurich)

Hard is a quarter in the district 4 of Zurich. It was formerly a part of Aussersihl municipality, which was incorporated into Zurich in 1893. The quarter has a population of 12.715 distributed on an area of 1.46 km².

Industriequartier (Zurich)

The district comprises the quarters Gewerbeschule and Escher Wyss. Together with todays District 4, the district formed the formerly separate municipality of Aussersihl, which was incorporated into Zurich in 1893.

Langstrasse

Langstrasse is a street and quarter in district 4 in Zurich. Langstrasse begins near the district courts and extends north-northeast to the train tracks of Zurich Hauptbahnhof. The following short segment of Langstrasse leads towards Limmatplatz ...

Oschbrig

Oschbrig with an elevation of 696 metres, is a wooded mountain in Switzerland overlooking to the east Zurichsee.

Pfaffikersee

Pfaffikersee is a lake in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, near the town of Pfaffikon. It is 2.5 km long and 1.3 km wide at the middle. The lake was created in the last ice age when a moraine blocked off the ability for the lake to empty north ...

Riesbach

The district comprises the quarters Seefeld, Muhlebach and Weinegg. Riesbach was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893.

Schipfe

Schipfe is a residential district in Zurich located on the eastern slope of the Lindenhof, one of the oldest parts of the Helvetii Oppidum Zurich-Lindenhof, by the river Limmat. Historians and the Weinplatz suggest that the district was part of t ...

Schwamendingen

Schwamendingen is a district in the Swiss city of Zurich. It is district number 12. The district comprises the quarters Schwamendingen Mitte, Saatlen and Hirzenbach. Schwamendingen was an Alemannic settlement, named after one Swuamund, archaeolog ...

Seebach (Zurich)

Seebach is a quarter in the district 11 of Zurich, located in the Glatt Valley. It was formerly a municipality in its own right, but was incorporated into the city of Zurich in 1934. In contrast to the innercity neighborhoods, Zurich-Seebach is k ...

Seen (Winterthur)

Seen is a district in the Swiss city of Winterthur. It is district number 3. The district comprises the quarters Waser, Buelwiesen, Waldegg, Ganzenbuhl, Sonnenberg, Ricketwil, Oberseen, Gotzenwil, Eidberg, Iberg and Sennhof. Seen was formerly a m ...

Toss

Toss is a district in the Swiss city of Winterthur. It is district number 4. The district comprises the quarters Schlosstal, Dattnau, Eichliacker and Rossberg. It is named after the river Toss which flows through the district. In the Middle Ages, ...

Uerikon

Uerikon is located on the north bank of the Zurichsee Lake Zurich in the Pfannenstiel region and is part of the political municipality of Stafa. In the local dialect it is called Urike.

Unterstrass

Unterstrass is a quarter in the district 6 in Zurich. It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893. The quarter has a population of 19.921, in an area of 2.46 km 2 0.95 sq mi. In 1962, the faculty of sci ...

Weinegg

Weinegg was formerly a part of Riesbach municipality, which was incorporated into Zurich in 1893. The quarter has a population of 4.951 distributed on an area of 1.72 km².

Werd (Zurich)

Werd is a quarter in district 4, Aussersihl in Zurich, Switzerland. The three quarters of district 4, Aussersihl are Werd, Langstrasse and Hard. Werd is the southern most quarter of district 4 and it borders with the Langstrasse, Quarter of distr ...

Wiedikon

Wiedikon is a district in the Swiss city of Zurich. It corresponds to District number 3 and comprises the neighborhoods of Alt-Wiedikon, Sihlfeld and Friesenberg. Wiedikon was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zuri ...

Winterberg ZH

Winterberg is a village in the municipality of Lindau in Pfaffikon District, canton of Zurich in Switzerland. Its coat of arms is a blazon: three times six piled balls in a triangle

Wipkingen

Wipkingen is a quarter in the district 10 in Zurich. It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893. The quarter has a population of 15.446 distributed on an area of 2.11 km². Zentrum fur Migrationskirchen ...

Wollishofen

Wollishofen is a neighbourhood in Zurichs 2nd district. It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893. The neighbourhood has a population of 15.592 distributed on an area of 5.75 km².

Wulflingen Castle

Wulflingen Castle is a castle in the city of Winterthur and the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. The Gottfried Keller Foundation aims the acquisition of major works from Switzerland and abroad ...

Zurich West

Zurich West is an area in the Industriequartier, located in the west of Zurich. It is a former industrial site, stretching between the track leading away from Zurich Hauptbahnhof and the Limmat, and experiencing a gradual conversion into a new qu ...

Zurichberg

The Zurichberg is a wooded hill rising to 679 m, overlooking Lake Zurich and located immediately to the east of the city of Zurich, Switzerland, between the valleys of the Limmat and the Glatt rivers. Its highest point is about 270 metres above t ...

Davydivka

Davydivka is a commune in Storozhynets Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, southwestern Ukraine. It is composed of a single village, Davydivka. Located in the Ukrainian part of the historic Bukovina region, the commune is situated on the Siret river at an ...

Hertsa

Hertsa is a city located in Chernivtsi Oblast in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Hertsa Raion. Population: 2.119. The city is the smallest raion administrative center in Ukraine and is located close to the Romanian border.

Hlyboka Raion

Hlyboka Raion is an administrative district of Chernivtsi Oblast located in the historical regions of Bukovina and Hertza, in western Ukraine. The administrative center is the urban-type settlement of Hlyboka. There are 37 villages in the raion. ...

Novoselytsia Raion

Novoselytsia Raion is a raion in Chernivtsi Oblast, in the west of Ukraine. The western part of its territory lies in the historical region of Bukovina, the eastern part in Bessarabia, while one village is part of the Hertza region. The center of ...

Stary Vovchynets

Stary Vovchynets is a commune in Hlyboka Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine. It is composed of two villages, Bila Krynytsia and Stary Vovchynets. Bila Krynytsia village is located a few hundred metres north of the border with Romania. In Ukrainian ...

Storozhynets Raion

Storozhynets Raion is a raion in Chernivtsi Oblast, in the historical region of Bukovina, in western part of Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the town of Storozhynets. It borders with Romania from south, Vyzhnytsia Raion from we ...

Tarasivtsi

Tarasivtsi is a village in Ukraine in the Novoselytsia Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast. The population of the village is more than 5000 people, of which 95% are ethnic Romanians and Moldovans. Tarasivtsi is notable as the only place in Ukraine where the ...

Bakhmut Raion

Bakhmut Raion is a raion within the northeastern part of Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Its administrative center is Bakhmut, but the city itself does not administratively belong the raion. Its area is 1.687 km 2, and its population is approx ...

Berezove, Marinka Raion

Berezove is a village in Marinka Raion in Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine, at 36 km SW from the centre of Donetsk city. The War in Donbass, that started in mid-April 2014, has brought along both civilian and military casualties. In a clash betw ...

Bezimenne, Novoazovsk Raion

Bezimenne is a village in Novoazovsk Raion in Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine, at 133 km SSE from the centre of Donetsk city, on the shore of the Sea of Azov. The settlement was taken under control of pro-Russian forces during the War in Donbas ...