Canton of Neuchâtel

The Republic and Canton of Neuchâtel is one of the 26 cantons of the . It is a mostly French-speaking canton in the western part of the country. In 2020, its population was 175,894. The capital is Neuchâtel.
  • Type: State with 172,000 residents
  • Description: canton of Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Canton de Neuchatel”, “Canton Neuchatel”, “CH024”, “État de Neuchâtel”, “NE”, “Neuchâtel”, “Neuchatel (kanton)”, “Neuchâtel kantonu”, “кантон Неўшатэль”, “Неўшатэль (кантон)”, “Нёўшатэль (кантон)”, “Нојенбург”, and “न्यूशैटल छावनी”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Mont Racine and Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane railway station.

Peak
is a peak in the Jura Mountains, located…

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
The La Chaux-de-Fonds–Les Ponts-de-Martel railway is a metre-gauge railway in the Swiss Jura.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Corcelles-Cormondrèche and Rochefort.

Village
is a former municipality in the…

Village
Photo: Micmac, CC BY 1.0.
is a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel in .

Village
is a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel in .

Canton of Neuchâtel

Latitude
47.0099° or 47° 0′ 36″ north
Longitude
6.8244° or 6° 49′ 28″ east
Population
172,000
Elevation
1,079 metres (3,540 feet)
Abbreviation
“NE”
Open location code
8FV82R5F+XQ
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Canton of Neuchâtel” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kanton Neuchâtel”
  • Albanian: “Kantoni Neuchâtel”
  • Amharic: “ኒውሻቴል”
  • Arabic: “كانتون نوشاتيل”
  • Arabic: “كانتون”
  • Arabic: “نيوشاتل”
  • Aragonese: “Cantón de Neuchâtel”
  • Armenian: “Նևշատել”
  • Armenian: “Նյոշատել”
  • Arpitan: “Canton de N’châtél”
  • Arpitan: “Cànton de Nôchâthél”
  • Asturian: “Cantón de Neuchâtel”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nyuşatel”
  • Balinese: “Kanton Neuchâtel”
  • Basque: “Neuchâtel kantonamendua”
  • Belarusian: “кантон Нёўшатэль”
  • Belarusian: “Неўшатэль”
  • Belarusian: “Нёўшатэль”
  • Belarusian: “Нэўшатэль”
  • Bengali: “ক্যান্টন অফ নুচাচেল”
  • Bosnian: “Neuchâtel (kanton)”
  • Bosnian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Breton: “Kanton Neuchâtel”
  • Bulgarian: “Ньошател”
  • Bulgarian: “Нюшател”
  • Catalan: “cantó de Neuchâtel”
  • Catalan: “Cantó de Neuchâtel”
  • Cebuano: “Neuchâtel (kanton)”
  • Cebuano: “Neuchâtel”
  • Chinese: “納沙泰爾州”
  • Chinese: “紐沙特州”
  • Chinese: “纳沙泰尔州”
  • Chuvash: “Невшатель”
  • Croatian: “Neuchâtel (kanton)”
  • Croatian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Czech: “Neuchâtel”
  • Danish: “Kanton Neuchâtel”
  • Dutch: “Neuchâtel”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Neŭŝatelo”
  • Esperanto: “Neŭŝatelo”
  • Estonian: “Neuchâteli kanton”
  • Finnish: “Neuchâtel”
  • French: “canton de Neuchâtel”
  • French: “Canton de Neuchâtel”
  • French: “Canton Neuchâtel”
  • French: “Neuchâtel”
  • French: “République et Canton de Neuchâtel”
  • Galician: “Cantón de Neuchâtel”
  • Georgian: “ნევშატელის კანტონი”
  • German: “Kanton Neuenburg”
  • German: “Neuenburg Kanton”
  • German: “Neuenburg”
  • German: “Republik und Kanton Neuenburg”
  • Greek: “Καντόνι του Νεσατέλ”
  • Gujarati: “નૌચૈટેલ કેન્ટન”
  • Hausa: “Neuchatel”
  • Hebrew: “נשאטל”
  • Hebrew: “קנטון נשאטל”
  • Hindi: “नोशातेल कैन्टन”
  • Hungarian: “Neuchâtel kanton”
  • Icelandic: “Neuchâtel (fylki)”
  • Icelandic: “Neuchatel”
  • Icelandic: “Neuchâtel”
  • Iloko: “Kanton ti Neuchâtel”
  • Iloko: “Neuchâtel”
  • Indonesian: “Kanton Neuchâtel”
  • Interlingue: “Canton de Neuchâtel”
  • Irish: “cantún Neuchâtel”
  • Italian: “Canton Neuchâtel”
  • Italian: “Cantone di Neuchâtel”
  • Italian: “Cantone Neuchâtel”
  • Italian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Italian: “Repubblica e Cantone Neuchâtel”
  • Japanese: “ヌーシャテル州”
  • Javanese: “Canton Neuchâtel”
  • Kannada: “ನ್ಯೂಚಟೆಲ್ನ ಕ್ಯಾಂಟನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Нёвшатель”
  • Kirghiz: “Нёшатель”
  • Korean: “뇌샤텔 주”
  • Korean: “뇌샤텔”
  • Korean: “뇌샤텔주”
  • Kurdish: “Neuchâtel (kanton)”
  • Kurdish: “Neuchâtel”
  • Ladin: “Cianton de Neuchâtel”
  • Latin: “Pagus Novicastrensis”
  • Latvian: “Neišateles kantons”
  • Limburgan: “Neuchâtel”
  • Lingala: “Kanton ya Neuchâtel”
  • Lithuanian: “Nešatelio kantonas”
  • Lombard: “Canton Neuchâtel”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kanton Neuchâtel”
  • Luxembourgish: “Neuchâtel”
  • Macedonian: “Нешател”
  • Malay: “Neuchâtel”
  • Maltese: “Neuchâtel”
  • Marathi: “नूशातेल”
  • Mazanderani: “نوشاتل کانتون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Neuchâtel Chiu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Neuenburg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Neuchâtel”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kantonen Neuchâtel”
  • Norwegian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Novial: “Kanton di Neuchâtel”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Canton de Neuchâtel”
  • Oromo: “Neuchatel”
  • Ossetian: “Невшатель”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਿਊਸ਼ਾਤਲ”
  • Persian: “کانتون نوشاتل”
  • Persian: “نوشاتل”
  • Polish: “Neuchâtel”
  • Portuguese: “Neuchâtel”
  • Pushto: “نوین بورګ”
  • Romanian: “cantonul Neuchâtel”
  • Romanian: “Cantonul Neuchâtel”
  • Romansh: “Chantun Neuchâtel”
  • Romansh: “Chantun Neuschatel”
  • Romansh: “Neuchâtel”
  • Russian: “Невшатель”
  • Russian: “Нёвшатель”
  • Rusyn: “Нушател (кантон)”
  • Rusyn: “Нушател”
  • Scots: “Canton o Neuchâtel”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Neuchâtel”
  • Serbian: “Кантон Нешател”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Sicilian: “Cantuni di Neuchâtel”
  • Sinhala: “නෙයුචාටෙල් පළාත”
  • Slovak: “Neuchâtel”
  • Slovenian: “Kanton Neuchâtel”
  • Somali: “Neuchatel”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نوشتل”
  • Spanish: “Cantón de Neuchâtel”
  • Spanish: “Neuchâtel”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Neuchâtel”
  • Swedish: “Neuchâtel (kanton)”
  • Swedish: “Neuchâtel”
  • Swiss German: “Kanton Neuenburg”
  • Swiss German: “Kanton Nöieburg”
  • Tajik: “Нёшатель”
  • Tamil: “காண்டோன் ஆப் னேஉச்சிட்டல்”
  • Tatar: “Нёшатель”
  • Telugu: “కాంటన్ ఆఫ్ న్యూచాటెల్”
  • Thai: “รัฐเนอชาแตล”
  • Turkish: “Neuchâtel”
  • Ukrainian: “Невшатель”
  • Urdu: “کینٹن نوشاتل”
  • Uzbek: “Neushatель”
  • Venetian: “Canton Novocasteło”
  • Venetian: “Canton Novocasteo”
  • Vietnamese: “Bang Neuchâtel”
  • Vietnamese: “Neuchâtel”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Neuchâtel”
  • Welsh: “Neuchâtel”
  • Western Panjabi: “نواں شیٹل”
  • Wu Chinese: “纳沙泰尔州”
  • Yue Chinese: “新城堡州”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: La Petite Motte and Centre du Louverain.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Le Louverain and Bibliothèque publique du Val-de-Ruz - Geneveys-sur-Coffrane.

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Worth a closer look: Zurich and Bern.

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