Basel | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-23

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00:03:13 1 History
00:03:22 1.1 Early history
00:06:10 1.2 Prince-Bishopric of Basel
00:10:08 1.3 As a member state in the Swiss Confederacy
00:13:22 1.4 Modern history
00:14:30 1.5 Basel as a historical, international meeting place
00:15:39 2 Name
00:16:15 3 Geography and climate
00:16:25 3.1 Topography
00:18:08 3.2 Climate
00:19:04 4 Politics
00:19:30 4.1 Canton
00:19:52 4.2 City
00:20:00 4.2.1 Quarters
00:20:19 4.3 Coat of arms
00:20:42 4.4 Government
00:22:28 4.5 Parliament
00:24:32 4.6 Federal elections
00:24:41 4.6.1 National Council
00:25:28 4.6.2 Council of States
00:26:07 4.7 International relations
00:26:16 4.7.1 Twin towns and sister cities
00:26:44 5 Demographics
00:26:53 5.1 Population
00:34:42 5.1.1 Historical population
00:34:51 5.2 Language
00:35:26 5.3 Religion
00:37:22 6 Infrastructure
00:37:31 6.1 Quarters
00:37:54 6.2 Transport
00:38:30 6.2.1 Port
00:38:49 6.2.2 Air transport
00:39:29 6.2.3 Railways
00:40:35 6.2.4 Roads
00:41:26 6.2.5 Ferries
00:42:17 6.2.6 Public transport
00:43:17 6.2.7 Border crossings
00:46:21 6.3 Health
00:47:06 6.4 Energy
00:48:16 7 Economy
00:52:09 7.1 Chemical industry
00:52:45 7.2 Banking
00:55:16 7.3 Air
00:55:46 7.4 Media
00:56:23 7.5 Trade fairs
00:56:50 8 Education
00:58:48 8.1 Universities
01:00:25 8.2 Volksschule
01:01:25 8.3 Upper secondary school
01:03:38 8.4 International schools
01:04:16 8.5 Libraries
01:05:12 9 Culture
01:05:21 9.1 Main sights
01:06:52 9.1.1 Heritage sites
01:11:28 9.2 Theatre and music
01:13:26 9.3 Museums
01:16:31 9.4 Events
01:18:27 9.5 Cuisine
01:18:58 9.6 Zoo
01:20:09 9.7 Sport



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Basel (; also Basle ; German pronunciation: [ˈbaːzl̩]; French: Bâle [bɑːl]; Italian: Basilea [baziˈlɛːa]) is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zürich and Geneva) with about 180,000 inhabitants.Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany. As of 2016, the Swiss Basel agglomeration was the third-largest in Switzerland, with a population of 541,000 in 74 municipalities in Switzerland (municipal count as of 2018). The initiative Trinational Eurodistrict Basel (TEB) of 62 suburban communes including municipalities in neighboring countries, counted 829,000 inhabitants in 2007.The official language of Basel is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local Basel German dialect.
The city is known for its many internationally renowned museums, ranging from the Kunstmuseum, the first collection of art accessible to the public in Europe (1661) and the largest museum of art in the whole of Switzerland, to the Fondation Beyeler (located in Riehen). The University of Basel, Switzerland's oldest university (founded in 1460), and the city's centuries-long commitment to humanism, have made Basel a safe haven at times of political unrest in other parts of Europe for such notable people as Erasmus of Rotterdam, the Holbein family, Friedrich Nietzsche and in the 20th century also Hermann Hesse and Karl Jaspers.
The city of Basel is Switzerland's second-largest economic centre after the city of Zürich and has the highest GDP per capita in the country, ahead of the cantons of Zug and Geneva. In terms of value, over 94% of Basel City's goods exports are in the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors. With production facilities located in the neighboring Schweizerhalle, Basel accounts for 20% of Swiss exports and generates one third of the national product.Basel has been the seat of a Prince-Bishopric since the 11th century, and joined the Swiss Confederacy in 1501. The city has been a commercial hub and an important cultural centre since the Renaissance, and has emerged as a centre ...