Thun

Municipality in Switzerland
	Coat of arms
	Location of Thun Lua error in Module:Infobox_mapframe at line 118: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
	Coordinates: 46°46′N 7°38′E / 46.767°N 7.633°ECoordinates: 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 2012)
• Total	42,735
• Density	1,981.2/km2 (5,131.3/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)	3600-3645
Surrounded by	Amsoldingen, Heiligenschwendi, Heimberg, Hilterfingen, Homberg, Schwendibach, Spiez, Steffisburg, Thierachern, Uetendorf, Zwieselberg
Website	www.thun.ch ; SFSO statistics

Thun (French: Thoune) is a city of the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The city has about 43,783 inhabitants (around 90,000 in the agglomeration), as of 31 December 2013.

It is located where the Aare flows out of Lake Thun (Thunersee), 30 km (19 mi) south of Berne.

Gallery

Thun-Renzenbühl axe, 1800 BC
Thun in the "Topographia Helvetiæ, Rhætiæ et Valesiæ" by Matthäus Merian the Elder, 1654
Photochrome of the Aare and Thun Castle from 1900
Aerial view by Walter Mittelholzer (1919)
Low rise apartments in Thun
Historic and modern buildings in Thun
Historic Thun
The historic Scherzligen Church in Thun
Train station of Thun, canton of Bern, Switzerland

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Municipality in Switzerland

Coat of arms
Location of Thun Lua error in Module:Infobox_mapframe at line 118: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).

Coordinates: 46°46′N 7°38′E / 46.767°N 7.633°E / 46.767; 7.633Coordinates: 46°46′N 7°38′E / 46.767°N 7.633°E / 46.767; 7.633
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 2012)
• Total	42,735
• Density	1,981.2/km² (5,131.3/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)	3600-3645
Surrounded by	Amsoldingen, Heiligenschwendi, Heimberg, Hilterfingen, Homberg, Schwendibach, Spiez, Steffisburg, Thierachern, Uetendorf, Zwieselberg
Website	www.thun.ch SFSO statistics