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Erdkunde publishes scientific articles covering the whole range of physical geography and human geography. The journal offers state of the art reports on recent trends and developments in specific fields of geography and comprehensive and critical reviews of new geographical publications.
The TEB forms an extension of the Trinational Agglomeration Basel (German: Trinationale Agglomeration Basel (TAB)/French: Agglomération Trinationale de Bâle (ATB). The TEB has approximately 830,000 inhabitants. [1] with 60% in Switzerland, 30% in Germany and 10% in France. It consists of: [1] In Switzerland: Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft ...
A topographic map of the Republic, excluding all the overseas departments and territories Simplified physical map. The geography of France consists of a terrain that is mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in the north and the west and mountainous in the south (including the Massif Central and the Pyrenees) and the east (the country's highest points being in the Alps).
The Dreiländereck is a monument in Basel, Switzerland. It marks the tripoint where the borders of France, Germany and Switzerland meet. The France–Germany border, the Germany–Switzerland border and France–Switzerland border meet there.
The only canton sharing borders with Basel-Stadt is Basel-Landschaft to the south. To the north of Basel-Stadt are France and Germany, with the tripoint being in the middle of the Rhine. Together with Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt was part of the Canton of Basel, which joined the Old Swiss Confederacy in 1501. Political quarrels and armed ...
with France [note 2] 571.8 356 Basel-City Basel-Country Solothurn Jura Neuchâtel Vaud Geneva Valais: Rhine at Basel (246 m) Aiguille d'Argentière (3,901 m) with Germany [note 3] 345.7 208 Basel-City Basel-Country Aargau Zürich Schaffhausen Thurgau St. Gallen: Rhine at Basel (246 m) Randen mountains near Beggingen (900 m) with Austria [note 4 ...
These are: EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg which is located in France, but passengers can go to Switzerland without going through French border controls; and Geneva Airport which is located in Switzerland, but passengers arriving on flights from France can go to France without going through Swiss border controls. The Geneva Airport runway ...
The 18th-century mathematician Leonhard Euler was born in Basel and studied under Johann Bernoulli. Intended as a defence of Huguenots then persecuted in France, Calvin's Institutes, authored in Basel, was a 1536 exposition of Protestant Christian doctrine which later became known as Calvinism.