A city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine, at the point where the High Rhine transitions into the Upper Rhine. With 177,595 inhabitants within its municipal limits it is Switzerland's third most populous city.
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Area (sq km) Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Connections
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Largest City
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Born: Basel (Basel-Stadt, Switzerland) (inhabited place)
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By the end of his life he had allied himself with Heinrich Bullinger in Switzerland and worked in Basel, where he eventually died.
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He spent several years abroad in study, worked as a proofreader in Basel, married in 1522, and became a Christian minister around 1523.
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In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel.
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Initially trained in the family trade as a plasterer, he entered the missionary school at Basel in 1900 and served as a missionary in British India from 1907 to 1911.
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In 1897, Herzl convened the First Zionist Congress at the Stadtcasino in Basel, Switzerland, and was elected president of the Zionist Organization.
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The following year his family settled in Basel.
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1. Basel (Wikipedia)
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Basel is Switzerland's third most populous city (after Zurich and Geneva), with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits.
Infobox: Population label
Population (2024-12-31)
Infobox: Area
22.75 km2 (8.78 sq mi)
Lead section: earliest record
The name of Basel is first recorded as Basilia in the 3rd century (237/238).
Infobox: Elevation (Barfusserkirche)
261 m (856 ft)
Infobox: Coordinates
47°33′17″N 07°35′26″E
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View the Source 2. GeoNames: Basel - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2661604
47.55839 7.57327 P PPLA CH BS 1200 2701 177595 279 Europe/Zurich
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 279 m
View the Source 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 47.75, 7.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 47.75, 7.75
47.75 7.75 Cfb
Wikidata: Basel
Wikidata Q78, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source Statoids: Cantons of Switzerland (Statoids)
StatoidsCapital Of: Basel-Stadt, Primary subdivisions table, capital columnQuote, Capital Of: Basel-Stadt, Primary subdivisions table, capital column
Basel-Stadt CH.BS SZ04 CH031 184,950 37 14 g Basel
Basel-Stadt (Wikipedia)
Largest City: Basel-Stadt, Lead, largest municipalityQuote, Largest City: Basel-Stadt, Lead, largest municipality
The largest municipality is Basel, followed by Riehen and Bettingen.
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