Thun

Thun
Municipality
Thun in 2012
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Thun
Thun Show map of Switzerland Thun Show map of Canton of Bern
Coordinates: 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 [1]
• Total	21.60 km2 (8.34 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  (31 December 2018)[2]
• Total	43,734
• Density	2,000/km2 (5,200/sq mi)
Demonym	German: Thuner(in)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)	3600-3645
SFOS number	0942
ISO 3166 code	CH-BE
Surrounded by	Amsoldingen, Heiligenschwendi, Heimberg, Hilterfingen, Homberg, Schwendibach, Spiez, Steffisburg, Thierachern, Uetendorf, Zwieselberg
Website	www.thun.ch SFSO statistics

Thun (French: Thoune) is a town and a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located where the Aare flows out of Lake Thun (Thunersee), 30 kilometres (19 miles) southeast of Bern.

As of December 2018^[update] the municipality has almost about 45,000 inhabitants and around 80,000 live in the agglomeration.

Besides tourism, machine and precision instrument engineering, the largest garrison in the country, the food industry, armaments and publishing are of economic importance to Thun.

The official language of Thun is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.