Thun
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Thun in 2012 | |
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| Coordinates: 46°46′N 7°38′E / 46.767°N 7.633°E | |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Canton | Bern |
| District | Thun |
| Government | |
| • Executive | Gemeinderat with 5 members |
| • Mayor | Stadtpräsident (list) Raphael Lanz SVP/UDC (as of February 2014) |
| • Parliament | Stadtrat with 40 members |
| Area | |
• Total | 21.57 km2 (8.33 sq mi) |
| Elevation (Railway station) | 560 m (1,840 ft) |
| Highest elevation (Dürrenbergwald) | 1,172 m (3,845 ft) |
| Lowest elevation (Aare at Lerchenfeld) | 552 m (1,811 ft) |
| Population (Dec 2024) | |
• Total | 44,125 |
| • Density | 2,046/km2 (5,298/sq mi) |
| Demonym | German: Thuner(in) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 3600-3645 |
| SFOS number | 942 |
| ISO 3166 code | CH-BE |
| Surrounded by | Amsoldingen, Heiligenschwendi, Heimberg, Hilterfingen, Homberg, Schwendibach, Spiez, Steffisburg, Thierachern, Uetendorf, Zwieselberg |
| Website | www.thun.ch |
Thun (German pronunciation: [tuːn] ⓘ; French: Thoune [tun]) is a town and a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located where the Aare flows out of Lake Thun (Thunersee), 30 kilometres (19 miles) southeast of Bern.
As of December 2018 the municipality has about 45,000 inhabitants and around 80,000 live in the agglomeration.
Besides tourism, machine and precision instrument engineering, the largest garrison in the country, the food industry, armaments and publishing are of economic importance to Thun.
The official language of Thun is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.