page_title: Farnern
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Farnern / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Attiswil and Farnern, canton of Bern, Switzerland Esperanto: Attiswil kaj Farnern, Kantono Berno, Svislando Deutsch: Attiswil und Farnern, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Farnern is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Farnern has an area of 3.68 km² (1.42 sq mi).  As of the 2005 survey, a total of 2.39 km² (0.92 sq mi) or 64.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.1 km² (0.42 sq mi) or 29.8% is forested.   Of rest of the municipality 0.16 km² (0.062 sq mi) or 4.3% is settled (buildings or roads).
  From the same survey, housing and buildings made up 2.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.9%.  A total of 26.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 9.2% is used for growing crops and  25.5% is pasturage, while 2.2% is used for orchards or vine crops and 27.9% is used for alpine pastures.
  The municipality is located on a terrace on the southern slope of the Jura Mountains and includes the village of Farnern and scattered farm houses.
  On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Wangen, the municipality's former district, was dissolved.  On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Oberaargau.
caption: Aerial view of the area around Farnern.  Farnern village is visible in the upper right third of the picture.
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