Neuchâtel is a town and municipality and the capital of the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel, on Lake Neuchâtel. Since the 2021 merger of the municipalities of Neuchâtel, Corcelles-Cormondrèche, Peseux and Valangin, the city has approximately 45,000 inhabitants, and about 86,000 in the metropolitan area. Its French and German names, Neuchâtel and Neuenburg, both mean New Castle, after a castle built by Rudolph III of Burgundy and completed in 1011. The city passed into the Holy Roman Empire in 1033, came under Prussian control from 1707 until 1848 with a break during the Napoleonic Wars, and in 1848 became a republic and a canton of Switzerland. Today it is a centre of the Swiss watch industry, micro-technology and high-tech research.
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Source Statoids: Cantons of Switzerland (Statoids)
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The University of Neuchâtel (UniNE) is a French-speaking public research university in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
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1. Neuchâtel (Wikipedia)
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the city has approximately 45,000 inhabitants
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the capital of the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel on Lake Neuchâtel
View the Source2. Opentopodata (SRTM): SRTM 90 m elevation at 47,6.9333
Opentopodata (SRTM)Elevation of the place coordinates 47,6.9333, band assigned from the figure (up to 10 m sea level, under 500 m lowland, under 1500 m highland, otherwise mountain)Quote, Elevation of the place coordinates 47,6.9333, band assigned from the figure (up to 10 m sea level, under 500 m lowland, under 1500 m highland, otherwise mountain)
"elevation": 557.0
Statoids: Cantons of Switzerland (Statoids)
StatoidsCapital Of: Canton of Neuchâtel, Cantons table, capital columnQuote, Capital Of: Canton of Neuchâtel, Cantons table, capital column
Neuchâtel CH.NE SZ12 CH024 172,085 797 308 f Neuchâtel
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