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Aare

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The Aare or Aar is a tributary of the High Rhine and the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland. [1]

118 relations: Aabach (Seetal), Aarau, Aarberg, Aarburg, Aare, Aare Gorge, Aargletschers, Aarwangen, Alp (river), Baden, Switzerland, Büren an der Aare, Büren, Solothurn, Bern, Bern zinc tablet, Bernese Alps, Bernese Highlands, Biel/Bienne, Bremgarten bei Bern, Brienz, Broye, Brugg, Canton of Aargau, Canton of Bern, Canton of Solothurn, Central Switzerland, Döttingen, Aargau, Emme (river), Engelberger Aa, Finsteraarhorn, Gürbetal, Germania Inferior, Grimsel Pass, Grimselsee, Guttannen, Head of navigation, High Rhine, Huttwil, Hydroelectricity, Hydronym, Innertkirchen, Interlaken, Jura water correction, Kander (Switzerland), Kleine Emme, Klingnau, Klingnauer Stausee, Koblenz, Switzerland, La Tène culture, Lake Biel, Lake Brienz, ..., Lake Lucerne, Lake Morat, Lake Neuchâtel, Lake Thun, Lake Wohlen, Lake Zurich, Langenthal, Lauteraarhorn, Lütschine (river), Limestone, Limmat, Linth, List of Aare bridges in Bern, Lorze, Maderanertal, Möriken-Wildegg, Münsingen, Meiringen, Minster (river), Moselle, Muota (river), Murgenthal, Muri bei Bern, Netherlands, Nidau, Nidau-Büren Canal, Niedergösgen, Niederriedsee, North Sea, Oberaargletscher, Oberaarsee, Oberhasli, Old City (Bern), Olten, Orbe (river), Ptolemy, Räterichsbodensee, Reppisch, Reuss (river), Rhine, River, Roggwil, Bern, Saane/Sarine, Sarner Aa (river), Schächental, Schönenwerd, Seeztal, Sense (river), Sernftal, Sihl, Simme, Solothurn, Spiez, Steffisburg, Suhre, Surbtal, Suze (river), Swamp, Switzerland, Thielle, Thun, Tributary, Unteraargletscher, Unterseen, Waldshut-Tiengen, Walensee, Wigger (river), Windisch. Expand index (68 more) »

Aabach (Seetal)

The Aabach is a small river that runs through the Swiss cantons of Lucerne and Aargau, in the Aare catchment area.

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Aarau

Aarau (locally) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the northern Swiss canton of Aargau.

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Aarberg

Aarberg is a historic town and a municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Aarburg

Aarburg is a historic town and a municipality in the district of Zofingen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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Aare

The Aare or Aar is a tributary of the High Rhine and the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland.

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Aare Gorge

The Aare Gorge (Aareschlucht) is a section of the river Aare that carves through a limestone ridge near the town of Meiringen, in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland.

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Aargletschers

The Aargletschers, literally "Aare-Glaciers", are a system of glaciers located at the sources of the Aare river in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland.

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Aarwangen

Aarwangen is a village and a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Alp (river)

The Alp is a river in the Swiss canton of Schwyz and a tributary of the Sihl.

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Baden, Switzerland

Baden (German for "Baths"), sometimes unofficially, to distinguish it from other Badens, called Baden bei Zürich ("Baden near Zürich") or Baden im Aargau ("Baden in Aargau"), is a municipality in Switzerland.

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Büren an der Aare

Büren an der Aare (usually abbreviated with Büren a.A., means Büren on the Aare) is a historic town and a municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Büren, Solothurn

Büren (Swiss German: Büüre) is a municipality in the district of Dorneck in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

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Bern

Bern or Berne (Bern, Bärn, Berne, Berna, Berna) is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to by the Swiss as their (e.g. in German) Bundesstadt, or "federal city".

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Bern zinc tablet

The Bern zinc tablet or Gobannus tablet is a metal sheet found in 1984 in Bern, Switzerland.

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Bernese Alps

The Bernese Alps (Berner Alpen, Alpes bernoises, Alpi bernesi) are a mountain range of the Alps, located in western Switzerland.

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Bernese Highlands

The Berner Oberland (German; Highlands, also referred to in the English-speaking tourism sector as the Bernese Oberland), is the higher part of the canton of Bern, Switzerland, in the southern end of the canton, and one of the canton's five administrative regions (in which context it is referred to as Oberland without further specification).

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Biel/Bienne

Biel/Bienne (official bilingual wording;;; Bienna, Bienna, Belna) is a town and a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Bremgarten bei Bern

Bremgarten bei Bern is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Brienz

Brienz is a village and municipality on the northern shore of Lake Brienz, at the foot of the Brienzer Rothorn mountain, and in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland.

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Broye

The Broye (La Brouye) is a 68 km long river, in the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud, in Switzerland.

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Brugg

Brugg is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau and is the seat of the district of the same name.

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Canton of Aargau

The canton of Aargau (German: Kanton; sometimes anglicized Argovia; see also other names) is one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland.

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Canton of Bern

The canton of Bern (Bern, canton de Berne) is the second largest of the 26 Swiss cantons by both surface area and population.

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Canton of Solothurn

The canton of Solothurn, also canton of Soleure (German) is a canton of Switzerland.

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Central Switzerland

Central Switzerland is the region of the Alpine foothills geographically the heart and historically the origin of Switzerland, with the cantons of Uri, Schwyz, Obwalden, Nidwalden, Lucerne and Zug.

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Döttingen, Aargau

Döttingen is a municipality in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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Emme (river)

The Emme is a river in Switzerland.

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Engelberger Aa

Engelberger Aa (or Engelbergeraa) is a river in Switzerland.

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Finsteraarhorn

The Finsteraarhorn is the highest mountain in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland and the most prominent peak of Switzerland.

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Gürbetal

Gürbetal (Gürbe Valley) in Switzerland lies between the towns of Bern and Thun, west of the Aare.

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Germania Inferior

Germania Inferior ("Lower Germany") was a Roman province located on the west bank of the Rhine.

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Grimsel Pass

The Grimsel Pass (Grimselpass; Col du Grimsel) is a mountain pass in Switzerland, crossing the Bernese Alps at an elevation of.

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Grimselsee

The Grimselsee or Lake Grimsel is an artificial lake near the Grimsel Pass in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland.

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Guttannen

Guttannen is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Head of navigation

Head of navigation is the farthest point above the mouth of a river that can be navigated by ships.

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High Rhine

The High Rhine (Hochrhein) is the name used for the part of the Rhine that flows westbound from Lake Constance to Basel.

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Huttwil

Huttwil is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the Swiss canton of Bern.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.

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Hydronym

A hydronym (from ὕδωρ, hydor, "water" and ὄνομα, onoma, "name") is a proper name of a body of water.

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Innertkirchen

Innertkirchen is a village and municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Interlaken

Interlaken (lit.: between lakes) is a statistic town and municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the Swiss canton of Bern.

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Jura water correction

The correction of the waters of the Swiss Jura consisted of a wide series of hydrological undertakings carried out in Switzerland in the region of the three lakes: Lake Morat connected to Lake Neuchatel by the Broye Canal, the latter connected to Lake Bienne by the Thielle Canal, an area called the "Seeland”.

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Kander (Switzerland)

The Kander is a river in Switzerland.

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Kleine Emme

The Kleine Emme is a river of the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, a left tributary of the Reuss extending for 58 km, draining a basin of 477 km².

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Klingnau

Klingnau is a municipality in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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Klingnauer Stausee

The Klingnauer Stausee (or "Klingnau reservoir") is a reservoir near Böttstein, canton of Aargau, Switzerland, at.

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Koblenz, Switzerland

Koblenz (or Coblenz) is a town and municipality in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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La Tène culture

The La Tène culture was a European Iron Age culture named after the archaeological site of La Tène on the north side of Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, where thousands of objects had been deposited in the lake, as was discovered after the water level dropped in 1857.

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Lake Biel

Lake Bienne or Lake Biel or (Lac de Bienne, Bielersee) is a lake in the west of Switzerland.

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Lake Brienz

Lake Brienz (Brienzersee) is a lake just north of the Alps, in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.

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Lake Lucerne

Lake Lucerne (Vierwaldstättersee, literally "Lake of the Four Forested Settlements", lac des Quatre-Cantons, lago dei Quattro Cantoni) is a lake in central Switzerland and the fourth largest in the country.

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Lake Morat

Lake Morat or Lake Murten (French: Lac de Morat; German: Murtensee) is a lake located in the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud in the west of Switzerland.

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Lake Neuchâtel

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Lake Thun

Lake Thun (Thunersee) is an Alpine lake in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland named after the city of Thun, on its northern shore.

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Lake Wohlen

Lake Wohlen (German: Wohlensee) is a reservoir in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland.

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Lake Zurich

Lake Zürich (Swiss German/Alemannic: Zürisee; German: Zürichsee) is a lake in Switzerland, extending southeast of the city of Zürich.

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Langenthal

Langenthal is a town and a municipality in the district of Oberaargau in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Lauteraarhorn

The Lauteraarhorn is a peak (4,042 m) of the Aarmassif in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland.

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Lütschine (river)

The Lütschine is a river in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland.

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Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

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Limmat

The Limmat is a river in Switzerland.

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Linth

The Linth (pronounced "lint") is a Swiss river that rises near the village of Linthal in the mountains of the canton of Glarus, and eventually flows into the Obersee section of Lake Zurich.

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List of Aare bridges in Bern

This is a list of the 18 bridges spanning the river Aare on the territory of the city of Bern, Switzerland.

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Lorze

Lorze is the main river of the Canton of Zug, Switzerland.

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Maderanertal

The Maderanertal is an Alpine valley of the canton of Uri in Central Switzerland.

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Möriken-Wildegg

Möriken-Wildegg is a municipality in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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Münsingen

Münsingen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Meiringen

Meiringen is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Minster (river)

The Minster is a river in the Swiss canton of Schwyz and a tributary of the Sihl river.

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Moselle

The Moselle (la Moselle,; Mosel; Musel) is a river flowing through France, Luxembourg, and Germany.

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Muota (river)

The Muota is a river in the Swiss canton of Schwyz and a tributary of Lake Lucerne.

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Murgenthal

Murgenthal is a municipality in the district of Zofingen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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Muri bei Bern

Muri bei Bern is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Nidau

Nidau is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Nidau-Büren Canal

The Nidau-Büren Canal (Nidau-Büren-Kanal, Canal de Nidau-Büren) is a -long canal that drains the waters of the Aare River out of the Lake of Biel/Bienne toward Solothurn.

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Niedergösgen

Niedergösgen is a municipality in the district of Gösgen in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

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Niederriedsee

Niederriedsee (or Stausee Niederried) is a reservoir formed by the Niederried dam on the Aar River in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland.

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North Sea

The North Sea (Mare Germanicum) is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.

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Oberaargletscher

The Oberaargletscher, literally "Upper Aare-Glacier" is a long glacier (2005) situated in the Bernese Alps in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.

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Oberaarsee

Oberaarsee is a hydroelectric reservoir in the Grimsel area, part of the municipality of Guttannen, Switzerland.

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Oberhasli

The Oberhasli is a historical Landvogtei or Talschaft in the Bernese Highlands, Switzerland, bordering on the cantons of Obwalden (OW), Nidwalden (NW), Uri (UR) and Wallis (VS).

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Old City (Bern)

The Old City (Altstadt) is the medieval city center of Bern, Switzerland.

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Olten

Olten is a town in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland and capital of the district of the same name.

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Orbe (river)

The Orbe (L'Orbe) is a river of the Rhine basin.

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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; Claudius Ptolemaeus) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology.

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Räterichsbodensee

Räterichsbodensee is a lake in Guttannen, Oberhasli, Switzerland.

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Reppisch

The Reppisch is a river in Switzerland.

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Reuss (river)

The Reuss (Swiss German: Rüüss) is a river in Switzerland.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine (Rhenus, Rein, Rhein, le Rhin,, Italiano: Reno, Rijn) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German border, then flows through the German Rhineland and the Netherlands and eventually empties into the North Sea.

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River

A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river.

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Roggwil, Bern

Roggwil is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Saane/Sarine

The Sarine (in French) or Saane (in German) is a major river of Switzerland.

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Sarner Aa (river)

The Sarner Aa is a long river in the Swiss canton of Obwalden.

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Schächental

The Schächental (Schächen Valley) is an alpine valley of Uri, Switzerland, formed by the river Schächen.

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Schönenwerd

Schönenwerd is a municipality in the district of Olten in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

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Seeztal

The Seeztal (or Seez Valley) is a valley of the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, extending to the east of Lake Walen for some 10 km, formed by the river Seez.

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Sense (river)

The river Sense (Sense, Singine) is a right tributary of the river Saane in Switzerland.

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Sernftal

The Sernftal or Kleintal is an alpine valley within Glarus Süd, in the canton of Glarus, Switzerland.

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Sihl

The Sihl is a Swiss river that rises near the Druesberg mountain in the canton of Schwyz, and eventually flows into the Limmat in the centre of the city of Zürich.

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Simme

The river Simme is a tributary of the river Kander in the Bernese Oberland in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Solothurn

Solothurn (Solothurn; Soleure; Soletta; Soloturn) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

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Spiez

Spiez is a town and municipality on the shore of Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss canton of Bern.

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Steffisburg

Steffisburg is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Suhre

The river Suhre is a 34 kilometer long tributary of the river Aare in the Swiss cantons of Lucerne and Aargau.

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Surbtal

Surbtal is the name of a river valley region in the Canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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Suze (river)

La Suze is a river in the Bernese Jura, Canton of Berne, Switzerland.

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Swamp

A swamp is a wetland that is forested.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Thielle

The river Thielle (La Thielle, or La Thièle, Zihl), is a tributary to the Aare, in the Swiss Seeland.

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Thun

Thun (Thoune) is a town and a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland with about 43,783 inhabitants (around 90,000 in the agglomeration), as of 31 December 2013.

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Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake.

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Unteraargletscher

The Unteraargletscher, literally "Lower Aare-Glacier", is the larger of the two sources of the Aare river in the Bernese Alps.

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Unterseen

Unterseen is a historic town and a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Waldshut-Tiengen

Waldshut-Tiengen is a city in southwestern Baden-Württemberg right at the Swiss border.

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Walensee

The Walensee is one of the larger lakes in Switzerland.

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Wigger (river)

The Wigger (formerly also called Wiggeren)Article Wigger, in: Geographisches Lexikon der Schweiz. Attinger, Neuchâtel 1910.

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Windisch

Windisch is a municipality in the district of Brugg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aare

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