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Wangen

municipality in the canton of Schwyz, Switzerland
Administrative Area Municipality Of Switzerland Q66707

Facts

17 properties

Identity

Instance of
municipality of Switzerland
Official website
www.wangensz.ch[14]
Official name
Wangen (SZ)[18]

Location

Country
Switzerland[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 47.191°, 8.896°
Located in or next to body of water
Lake Zurich, Wägitaler Aa[3][4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
March District[1]
Shares border with
Galgenen, Jona, Lachen, Schübelbach, Tuggen[6][7][8][9][10]

Population and size

Area
+10.86, +8.46[22][23]
Elevation above sea level
+424, +422[20][21]
Population
5.6k (5.0k–5.6k, n=3)[15][16][17]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 5,011 · 5,053 · 5,574 GeoNames 5,150 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
055[13]
Postal code
8855[11]
More facts +4
List of monuments
list of cultural properties in Wangen SZ[19]
Official language
German[5]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory[24]
Vehicle registration plate code
SZ[12]
🏷️ Also known as
en Wangen en Wangen SZ de Wangen SZ hu Wangen (SZ) ko 방엔 nl Wangen SZ ru Ванген zh 旺根
🔖 Identifiers · 16
GND ID
4639635-4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Frohberg (Kempraten) - Obersee - Altendorf - Jona Rüssel IMG 5123.JPG ↗
External data available at URL
geo.ld.admin.ch
FactGrid item ID
Blade of the Immortal
Freebase ID
/m/0fwhfn
GADM ID
CHE.18.5.10_1
GeoNames ID
7287543
HDS ID
000724
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1683120
OpenWeatherMap city ID
2658054
SPAP ID
p/74b58465-6fb6-4735-bab6-d0218769efb5
Swiss Enterprise Identification Number
CHE-115.079.465
Show all 16 identifiers +4
Swiss municipality code
1349
Topic's main category
Category:Wangen SZ
VerbaAlpina ID
A60673
Who's on First ID
101854009

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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 5
Lachen, Galgenen, Schübelbach, Tuggen, Jona
← Shares border with 5
Lachen, Galgenen, Schübelbach, Tuggen, Jona
Contained subdivisions 2
Siebnen, Siebnen-Wangen railway station
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
People born here 2
Michael Vogt, Marcel Wildhaber
Country 1
Switzerland
FactGrid item ID 1
Blade of the Immortal
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
German
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
March District
← Municipal affiliation of a Swiss national 1
Werner Düggelin
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Related Entities

Switzerland WikiProject Govdirectory

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [23] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [24] ↑ . govdirectory.org. Retrieved . govdirectory.org. Provenance: 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. 21d ago · Horgner · 2026-10-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → 5,011, 5,053, 5,574
    "Created claim: Population: 5,574, mass upload (details)"
  2. 12w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #46599: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  3. 13w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://www.wangensz.ch
    Located in time zone → —
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → March District
    VerbaAlpina ID → A60673
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: VerbaAlpina ID: A60673, batch #263620"
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