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Zürich District

district in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland
Administrative Area District Of The Canton Of Z Rich Q660732

Facts

15 properties

Identity

Instance of
district of the canton of Zürich
Official website
www.zh.ch, www.zh.ch[17][18]
Official name
Bezirk Zürich[19]

Location

Country
Switzerland[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 47.383°, 8.533°[16]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Canton of Zurich[2]
Shares border with
Uster District, Bülach District, Dielsdorf district, Dietikon District, Horgen District, Affoltern District, Meilen District[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Population and size

Area
+87.78[23]
Elevation above sea level
+412[22]

Codes

Located in time zone
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00[14][15]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata UTC+01:00 · UTC+02:00 GeoNames Europe/Zurich edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
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Capital
Zurich[4]
Coextensive with
Zurich[24]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Zurich, Zollikon[12]
Different from
Zurich, Zürich[20][21]
Vehicle registration plate code
ZH[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en Zurich en Zurich District en Zürich en Bezirk Zürich ar مقاطعة زيورخ cs Okres Curych de Zürich en-gb Zürich District es Distrito de Zurich es Distrito de Zúrich fr district de Zurich fr District de Zürich it distretto di Zurigo ja チューリッヒ区 pl Okręg Zurych pt Distrito de Zurique ru Цюрих th เขตซือริช tr Zürih (bölge) uk Цюріх
🔖 Identifiers · 10
CH district ID
0112
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--4945726
Freebase ID
/m/05zp74q
GADM ID
CHE.26.13_1
GeoNames ID
6458798
HASC
CH.ZH.ZH
INaturalist place ID
98039
Mindat locality ID
288767
OBO Gazetteer ID
00012931
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1690941
📚 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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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 7
Bülach District, Horgen District, Meilen District, Dielsdorf district, Affoltern District, Dietikon District, Uster District
← Shares border with 7
Bülach District, Horgen District, Meilen District, Dielsdorf district, Affoltern District, Dietikon District, Uster District
Contained subdivisions 6
Zurich, Zollikon, Seebach, Affoltern, Wipkingen, Office for Structural Engineering of the City of Zurich
Contains the administrative territorial entity 2
Zurich, Zollikon
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
Capital 1
Zurich
Coextensive with 1
Zurich
Country 1
Switzerland
Different from 1
Zurich
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Canton of Zurich
People born here 1
Anna Maurizio
← Capital of 1
Zurich
← Coextensive with 1
Zurich
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Canton of Zurich
← Different from 1
Zurich
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Summary

Zürich District is a district of the canton of Zürich[1].

Related Entities

Switzerland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · Alstorx · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Switzerland
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Canton of Zurich
    Elevation above sea level → 412
    Located in time zone → UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Different from: Zürich, batch #275027"
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