Local time
Thu, 9:43 PM GMT+1Europe/ZurichCity
Basel
47.58° N, 7.59° E
- Population
- 830,000
- Population from Natural Earth (POP_MAX). The source does not state which year the figure belongs to, so no year is shown.
- Population rank
- 3 of 28
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 28 cities of Switzerland in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Switzerland, so this is not a national ranking.
- Area
- 24 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Canton of Basel-Stadt
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Time zone
- Europe/Zurich
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Practical bearings for Basel, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Basel have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
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