What is the population of Düdingen, Fribourg?

Düdingen has a population of approximately 7,504 according to the latest available open data.

Where is Düdingen, Fribourg located?

Düdingen is located in Fribourg, Switzerland, at approximate coordinates 46.8497°, 7.1904°.

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Düdingen

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Düdingen

Total population

7,504

Elevation596 m

Land area30.76 km²

Coordinates46.85°, 7.19°

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City facts

Elevation

596 m

Area

30.76 km²

Official website

www.duedingen.ch

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Overview

Düdingen is a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French-speaking Canton of Fribourg.

History & geography

History

Düdingen is first mentioned in 1180 as Doens. In 1258 it was mentioned as Tiudingen and in 1414 as Dyung.

Geography

Düdingen has an area of . Of this area, or 67.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 13.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 12.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 6.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.6% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.4%. Out of the forested land, 12.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 48.9% is used for growing crops and 16.3% is pastures, while 2.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes. The municipality is located in the Sense district, north of Fribourg. It is the municipality with the biggest population of the Sense district. It consists of a number of hamlets including Mariahilf, Schiffenen, Bonn, Sankt Wolfgang, Ottisberg, Garmiswil, Jetschwil, Heitiwil and Galmis.

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Geography

Latitude

46.8497

Longitude

7.1904

Water area

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Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

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Notable people from here

Antoine Dousse

Swiss writer (1924-2006)

Antonin Weissenbach

Swiss politician (1850-1921)

Armand Niquille

Swiss painter (1912-1996)

Bernard Nissille

Swiss-French actor

Bernard Weck

Swiss politician (1890-1950)

Bruno Baeriswyl

Swiss painter (1941-1996)

Charles-Philippe d'Affry

Swiss politician (1895-1959)

Ernest Perrier

Swiss politician (1881-1958)

Swiss singer-songwriter

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

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Geography & sun

Avg solar (kWh/m²/day)

3.59

Annual solar (kWh/m²)

1,309

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

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Wikipedia views (last 30 days)

234

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Attention level

Obscure

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Official Identifiers

BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office

BFS-Nr: 2293
Population (Wikidata): 7,961
Wikidata: Q70108

Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771

Sources

• Wikipedia
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• Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
• Wikipedia Pageviews API
• Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image
• BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office — Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771