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Aargau

American  
[ahr-gou] / ˈɑr gaʊ /

noun

  1. a canton in northern Switzerland. 542 sq. mi. (1,400 sq. km). Aarau.


Aargau British  
/ ˈaːrɡau /

noun

  1. French name: Argovie.  a canton in N Switzerland. Capital: Aarau. Pop: 556 200 (2002 est). Area: 1404 sq km (542 sq miles)

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State authorities, non-profit organizations, private landowners and hundreds of volunteers worked for 20 years to build 422 ponds in five regions in Aargau.

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2022

After conservationists dug hundreds of new ponds in the state of Aargau, amphibian numbers significantly increased.

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2022

There have been reports of diseases from the cantons: Ticino, Geneva, Grisons, Aargau, Zurich, Basel-City and Vaud.

From The Guardian • Feb. 28, 2020

Just ask the town of Aargau, in Switzerland, which recently denied citizenship to a foreign-born vegan resident because she was being too annoying.

From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2017

The few among us who know anything about its government might recollect that there are twenty-six cantons—the list begins, Aargau, Appenzell, Ausser-Rhoden, Inner-Rhoden—you may remember—and ends with Valais, Vaud, Zug, and Zurich.

From In Secret by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)