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 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.
Distance between:
Geneva to Thun81 Miles / 130 Kms Lucerne to Thun38 Miles / 61 Kms Zürich to Thun61 Miles / 98 Kms Basel to Thun56 Miles / 89 Kms Bern to Thun13 Miles / 22 Kms Lausanne to Thun48 Miles / 78 Kms
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Population 2019
Total: 43 734
Total Men: 20 760
Total Women: 22 974