Canton of Bern
Obersimmental-Saanen
Saanen District

Saanen

Saanen is a municipality in the canton of Bern in . It is the capital of the .
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  • Type: Village with 6,870 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
  • Postal code: 3792

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tower with Amtshaus and Saanen railway station.

Historic house
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY 3.0.
is a historic house.

Railway station
Photo: JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gstaad and Rougemont.

Photo: Patrick Nouhailler’s…, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a mountain resort in the in Switzerland. The village is at 1050 m altitude, with local skiing only up to 2200 m, but it's linked by ski-lift to the higher areas of .

Village
Photo: Leemburg-CH, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a municipality in the Pays-d'Enhaut of the canton of in . is situated 4 km west of Saanen.

Saanen

Latitude
46.48976° or 46° 29′ 23″ north
Longitude
7.26158° or 7° 15′ 42″ east
Population
6,870
Elevation
1,010 metres (3,314 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CH SAA
Open location code
8FR9F7Q6+WJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 187277364
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2658904
Wiki­data ID
Q66629
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Saanen” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Saanen”
  • Basque: “Saanen”
  • Belarusian: “Занэн”
  • Breton: “Saanen”
  • Catalan: “Saanen”
  • Cebuano: “Saanen (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Chinese: “萨嫩”
  • Chinese: “薩嫩”
  • Chuvash: “Занен”
  • Czech: “Saanen”
  • Danish: “Saanen”
  • Dutch: “Saanen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ساانين”
  • Esperanto: “Abländschen”
  • Esperanto: “Bissen”
  • Esperanto: “Ebnit”
  • Esperanto: “Gruben”
  • Esperanto: “Grund”
  • Esperanto: “Gstaad”
  • Esperanto: “Kalberhöni”
  • Esperanto: “Saanen”
  • Esperanto: “Saanenmöser”
  • Esperanto: “Schönried”
  • Esperanto: “Turbach”
  • French: “Gessenay”
  • French: “Saanen”
  • French: “Schönried”
  • German: “Abländschen”
  • German: “Gessenay”
  • German: “Saanen-Gstaad”
  • German: “Saanen”
  • Greek: “Σάανεν”
  • Hebrew: “זאנן”
  • Hungarian: “Saanen”
  • Irish: “Saanen”
  • Italian: “Saanen”
  • Italian: “Schönried”
  • Japanese: “ザーネン”
  • Korean: “자넨”
  • Lithuanian: “Sanenas”
  • Lombard: “Saanen”
  • Malay: “Saanen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Saanen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saanen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Saanen”
  • Piemontese: “Saanen”
  • Polish: “Saanen”
  • Portuguese: “Saanen”
  • Romanian: “Saanen”
  • Russian: “Занен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Saanen”
  • Slovenian: “Saanen”
  • Spanish: “Saanen”
  • Swedish: “Saanen”
  • Swiss German: “Saane”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Saanen”
  • Turkish: “Saanen”
  • Ukrainian: “Заанен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Saanen”
  • Venetian: “Saanen”
  • Vietnamese: “Saanen”
  • Volapük: “Saanen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Saanen”
  • Welsh: “Saanen”

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