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Basel (/ ˈ b ɑː z əl /, BAH-zəl; German: ⓘ), also known as Basle, [note 1] is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the River Rhine (at the transition from the High to the Upper Rhine). [4] Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zurich and Geneva), with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits. [5]
The canton of Basel-Stadt shares its political structure and administration with the municipality of Basel. Basel-Stadt is a half-canton. This means that the canton only sends one representative to the Council of States. The capital of the canton Basel-Stadt is the city of Basel. The present constitution of the canton dates from 1889.
Below is a list of towns and cities in Switzerland. ... Basel (CH) Affoltern am Albis [note 2] – Affoltern: ZH: 12,289 1,334,269 Zurich Agno [note 2] m Roman ...
A city map is a large-scale thematic map of a city ... View of Basel, Switzerland, ca 1490, from the Nuremberg Chronicle. Map of Istanbul, Hunername-I (1523)
Map of Basel city walls. The Basel city walls are a complex of walls surrounding the central part of the Swiss city of Basel, only partially preserved today. The first city wall was completed around 1080 under bishop Burkhard von Fenis. A newer wall was constructed around 1230, which is known as the Inner Wall. Its course was mostly identical ...
Business Insider's author spent six days in Basel, Switzerland, discovering art and nearby French towns and embarking on epic hikes. ... But what also makes the city of Basel a dream is its access ...
The Basel tramway network (German: Basler Strassenbahn-Netz) is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Basel, Switzerland, and its agglomeration - it also reaches into adjacent suburbs in Germany and France.
Basel-Landschaft or Basel-Country, informally known as Baselland or Baselbiet (/ ˌ b ɑː z ə l ˈ l æ n d ʃ ɑː f t /; German: Kanton Basel-Landschaft [ˈkantɔn ˌbaːzl̩ ˈlantʃaft] ⓘ; Romansh: Chantun Basilea-Champagna; French: Canton de Bâle-Campagne [bɑl.kɑ̃.paɲ]; Italian: Canton Basilea Campagna), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.