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Spiringen
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Spiringen
Total population
881
Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Spiringen is a village and a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland. The municipality comprises two disjoint areas, separated by the municipality of Unterschächen and the Klausen Pass. The western area includes the village of Spiringen in the Schächen Valley, whilst the eastern area includes the Urner Boden alp above Linthal and the canton of Glarus.
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Geography
Spiringen has an area, , of . This area is split into two parts, with the slightly smaller part around the village of Spiringen in the valley of the Schächen, which drains westward towards the Reuss and Lake Lucerne. This part is surrounded by the municipalities of Bürglen and Schattdorf to the north and west, and the municipality of Unterschächen to the east and south. Some away, on the eastern side of Unterschächen and the Klausen Pass, is the second and larger part of the municipality. This comprises the Urner Boden meadows, and drains eastward into the Linth and Lake Zürich. Besides Unterschächen to its west, this part is surrounded on its north by the municipality of Muotathal in the canton of Schwyz, and on its south and east by the municipality of Glarus Süd in the canton of Glarus.
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Geography
Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
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Nearby places in Uri
- Unterschächen2.1 mi away · pop. 704
- Bürglen UR3 mi away · pop. 3,980
- Schattdorf3.7 mi away · pop. 5,058
- Altdorf UR4.1 mi away · pop. 10,459
- Attinghausen4.7 mi away · pop. 1,606
- Erstfeld5.1 mi away · pop. 3,786
- Flüelen5.3 mi away · pop. 1,959
- Seedorf UR5.5 mi away · pop. 1,816
- Silenen6.2 mi away · pop. 2,164
- Isleten7 mi away
- Sisikon7.3 mi away · pop. 397
- Amsteg7.5 mi away
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Official Identifiers
BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office
- BFS-Nr
- 1218
- Population (Wikidata)
- 849
- Wikidata
- Q69663
Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • iNaturalist
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office — Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771