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Gelterkinden

municipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland
AdministrativeArea municipality_of_switzerland Q65936

Facts

19 properties

Designation

Instance of
municipality of Switzerland
Heritage designation
Swiss townscape worthy of protection[23]

Location

Country
Switzerland[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 47.465°, 7.853°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Sissach District[3]
Postal code
4460[16]
More facts +13
Official website
www.gelterkinden.ch[19]
Area
+9.79, +9.78[28][29]
Elevation above sea level
+403, +458[26][27]
Licence plate code
BL[17]
List of monuments
list of cultural properties in Gelterkinden[25]
Local dialing code
061[18]
Located in or next to body of water
Ergolz[5]
Member of
SGV-ACS[2]
Official language
Swiss High German[6]
Official name
Gelterkinden[24]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory[30]
Population
6.5k (6.1k–6.5k, n=3)[20][21][22]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 6,095 · 6,200 · 6,531 GeoNames 6,268 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Shares border with
Böckten, Rickenbach, Ormalingen, Tecknau, Rünenberg, Rümlingen, Wittinsburg, Diepflingen, Thürnen[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
🏷️ Also known as
en Gelterkinden en Gelterkinden BL de Gelterkinden BL ru Гельтеркинден uk Гельтеркінден zh 蓋特金登 zh-hans 盖特金登
🔖 Identifiers · 19
VIAF cluster ID
245658042
GND ID
4086689-0
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Dorfplatz Gelterkinden.jpg ↗
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
38829
Early Modern Letters Online location ID
77857eb2-00a3-4c1e-b409-eed84d4655ea
External data available at URL
geo.ld.admin.ch
FactGrid item ID
Blanton C. Winship
Freebase ID
/m/0g815j
GADM ID
CHE.4.4.6_1
GeoNames ID
7285897
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 7285897 GND (DNB) 2660656 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗
HDS ID
001222
MusicBrainz area ID
2be18e3d-80c7-4bd7-b393-4912cc06f1d3
Show all 19 identifiers +7
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1683649
SPAP ID
p/a56503cc-15c6-482a-b644-a73b94192447
Swiss Enterprise Identification Number
CHE-115.091.377
Swiss municipality code
2846
Topic's main category
Category:Gelterkinden
Who's on First ID
101854315
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJcgxvqFqdv3Y3ykt3FkDq
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Zurich 2026-09-26 A/ADM3 · CH GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
Transform
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CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
Shares border with 9
Böckten, Ormalingen, Diepflingen, Rickenbach, Rümlingen, Rünenberg, Tecknau, Thürnen +1 more
← Shares border with 9
Böckten, Ormalingen, Diepflingen, Rickenbach, Rümlingen, Rünenberg, Tecknau, Thürnen +1 more
People born here 3
Beat Sutter, Fritz Puempin, Baschi
Contained subdivisions 2
Sommerau railway station, Gelterkinden railway station
Country 1
Switzerland
FactGrid item ID 1
Blanton C. Winship
Instance of 1
municipality of Switzerland
Located in or next to body of water 1
Ergolz
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Sissach District
Official language 1
Swiss High German
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
People who died here 1
Fritz Puempin
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Sissach District
← Municipal affiliation of a Swiss national 1
Caspar Baader
← Work location 1
Fritz Puempin
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Summary

Gelterkinden is a Municipality of Switzerland[1].

Related Entities

Switzerland WikiProject Govdirectory

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [2] ↑ . chgemeinden.ch. Retrieved . chgemeinden.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . gisos.bak.admin.ch. Retrieved . gisos.bak.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . govdirectory.org. Retrieved . govdirectory.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 18d ago · Horgner · 2026-10-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → municipality of Switzerland
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    Shares border with → Böckten, Rickenbach, Ormalingen +6
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