canton of Aargau – CH033

EU regions: Switzerland > SCHWEIZ/SUISSE/SVIZZERA > Northwestern Switzerland > canton of Aargau

Indicator	Period	Value
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2019	119

More on wikipedia wikidata Q11972 on OpenStreetMap canton of Aargau slovensky: CH033

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2024	726 894
population density	2023	520.3
old-age dependency ratio	2024	28.7

From Wikipedia:

Aargau (German: Kanton Aargau [ˈaːrɡaʊ] (listen); sometimes Latinized as Argovia; see also other names), more formally the Canton of Aargau, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eleven districts and its capital is Aarau.

Aargau is one of the most northerly cantons of Switzerland. It is situated by the lower course of the Aare River, which is why the canton is called Aar-gau (meaning „Aare province"). It is one of the most densely populated regions of Switzerland.

History

Early history

The area of Aargau and the surrounding areas were controlled by the Helvetians, a member of the Celts, as far back as 200 BC. It was eventually occupied by the Romans and then by the 6^th century, the Franks. The Romans built a major settlement called Vindonissa, near the present location of Brugg.

Medieval Aargau

The reconstructed Old High German name of Aargau is Argowe, first unambiguously attested (in the spelling Argue) in 795. The term described a territory only loosely equivalent to that of the modern canton, including the region between Aare and Reuss rivers, including Pilatus and Napf, i.e. including parts of the modern cantons of Bern (Bernese Aargau, Emmental, parts of the Bernese Oberland), Solothurn, Basel-Landschaft, Lucerne, Obwalden and Nidwalden, but not the parts of the modern canton east of the Reuss (Baden District), which were part of Zürichgau.

Within the Frankish Empire (8^th to 10th centuries), the area was a disputed border region between the duchies of Alamannia and Burgundy. A line of the von Wetterau (Conradines) intermittently held the countship of Aargau from 750 until about 1030, when they lost it (having in the meantime taken the name von Tegerfelden).

Other: Northwestern Switzerland, canton of Aargau, canton of Basel-Stadt, canton of Basel-Landschaft

Neighbours: canton of Basel-Landschaft, canton of Berne, canton of Zug, canton of Solothurn, canton of Zürich, Lörrach, Waldshut, canton of Lucerne

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - canton of Aargau – CH033, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PCH033, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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