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Lachen

municipality in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland
AdministrativeArea municipality_of_switzerland Q67100

Facts

22 properties

Designation

Instance of
municipality of Switzerland
Heritage designation
Swiss townscape worthy of protection[21]

Location

Country
Switzerland[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 47.191°, 8.857°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
March District[3]
Postal code
8853[13]
More facts +16
Official website
www.lachen.ch[16]
Capital of
Outer Schwyz[20]
Area
+5.19, +2.43[26][27]
Elevation above sea level
+408[25]
Licence plate code
SZ[14]
List of monuments
list of cultural properties in Lachen[23]
Local dialing code
055[15]
Located in or next to body of water
Lake Zurich, Wägitaler Aa[5][6]
Member of
SGV-ACS[2]
Native label
Lachen SZ[24]
Official language
Swiss High German[7]
Official name
Lachen[22]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory[28]
Population
9.4k (8.6k–9.4k, n=3)[17][18][19]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 8,617 · 8,754 · 9,448 GeoNames 8,883 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Shares border with
Rapperswil-Jona, Wangen, Altendorf, Galgenen, Jona[8][9][10][11]
Twinned administrative body
Schramberg[12]
🏷️ Also known as
en Lachen en Lachen SZ ar لاخن - سويسرا de Lachen SZ fa لشان، شوئیز fr Lachen SZ he לאכן it Lachen SZ ja ラッヘン ko 라헨 pl Lachen (Szwajcaria) ru Лахен zh 拉亨
🔖 Identifiers · 22
VIAF cluster ID
242172585
GND ID
4228026-6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Lachen vilagheniro (venante de Altendorf) 196.JPG ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
9796
External data available at URL
geo.ld.admin.ch
FactGrid item ID
Žirov
Freebase ID
/m/02ykrt
GADM ID
CHE.18.5.4_1
GeoNames ID
7286243
HDS ID
000719
MusicBrainz area ID
fdf4f0ff-f5ee-4ee6-bbd7-a56cfc5dd6d0
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1683088
Show all 22 identifiers +10
OpenWeatherMap city ID
2660075
Quora topic ID
Lachen
SNARC ID
Erwin Pröll
SPAP ID
p/08df1aca-15a5-4933-919b-b416290d8718
Swiss Enterprise Identification Number
CHE-115.079.376
Swiss municipality code
1344
Topic's main category
Category:Lachen SZ
VerbaAlpina ID
A60667
Who's on First ID
101854015
Yale LUX ID
place/15d94dd0-5d27-452d-903f-c830067c9b0b

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🔗 Connections
People born here 10
Josip Drmić, Joachim Raff, Oliver Zaugg, Alessandro Spezialetti, Anna Hirzel-Langenhan, Roman Güntensperger, Lars Weibel, Maya Bamert +2 more
Shares border with 5
Rapperswil-Jona, Altendorf, Galgenen, Wangen, Jona
← Shares border with 5
Rapperswil-Jona, Altendorf, Galgenen, Wangen, Jona
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
Contained subdivisions 1
Lachen railway station
Country 1
Switzerland
FactGrid item ID 1
Žirov
Instance of 1
municipality of Switzerland
Located in or next to body of water 1
Lake Zurich
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
March District
Official language 1
Swiss High German
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
SNARC ID 1
Erwin Pröll
Twinned administrative body 1
Schramberg
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
March District
← Headquarters location 1
Octapharma
← Twinned administrative body 1
Schramberg
← Work location 1
Leonard Lauder
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Summary

Lachen is a Municipality of Switzerland[1].

Related Entities

Josip Drmić Roger Züger Switzerland WikiProject Govdirectory

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [2] ↑ . chgemeinden.ch. Retrieved . chgemeinden.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . gisos.bak.admin.ch. Retrieved . gisos.bak.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . govdirectory.org. Retrieved . govdirectory.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18d ago · Horgner · 2026-10-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+8617'}, {'amount': '+8754'}, {'amount': '+9448'}
    Wikipedia languages → ['als', 'ca', 'cs', 'cv', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fr', 'it', 'kk',
    Sitelink count → 31
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Population: 9,448, mass upload ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/e2ea98ac2e9|details]])"
  2. 12w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/46599|batch #46599]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  3. 13w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    VerbaAlpina ID → A60667
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ VerbaAlpina ID: A60667, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/263620|batch #263620]]"
  4. 20w ago · Lehmannro · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Flag image → CHE Lachen SZ Flag.svg
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Flag image: CHE Lachen SZ Flag.svg"
  5. 27w ago · Shuaib-bot bot · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Member of → —
    Official language → —
    Elevation above sea level → {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+408'}
    Area → {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+5.19'}, {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+2.43'}
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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