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Boningen
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Boningen
Total population
729
Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Overview
Boningen is a municipality in the district of Olten in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
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History
Boningen is first mentioned in 1226 as in villa Bonningen.
Geography
Boningen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 38.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 27.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 25.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 9.4% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.4% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 3.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 7.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.0%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 10.1% of the area Out of the forested land, 23.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 4.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 26.6% is used for growing crops and 10.1% is pastures, while 1.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the water in the municipality, 0.4% is in lakes and 9.0% is in rivers and streams. The municipality is located in the Olten district, in the Aaregäu between the Aare river and the southern foot of Born mountain. It consists of the village of Boningen and the settlement of Gsteigli.
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Geography
Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
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Notable people from here
Nearby places in Solothurn
- Kappel1.2 mi away · pop. 2,958
- Gunzgen1.3 mi away · pop. 1,646
- Härkingen1.8 mi away · pop. 1,769
- Hägendorf2.1 mi away · pop. 4,702
- Rickenbach2.4 mi away · pop. 888
- Fulenbach2.5 mi away · pop. 1,686
- Neuendorf2.8 mi away · pop. 2,026
- Egerkingen3 mi away · pop. 4,300
- Wolfwil3.8 mi away · pop. 2,040
- Olten3.8 mi away · pop. 17,280
- Oberbuchsiten4.2 mi away · pop. 2,054
- Starrkirch-Wil4.3 mi away · pop. 1,660
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.
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Official Identifiers
BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office
- BFS-Nr
- 2571
- Population (Wikidata)
- 772
- Wikidata
- Q65606
Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office — Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771