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 .
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  • Type: State with 172,000 residents
  • Description: canton of Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Canton de Neuchatel”, “Canton de Neuchâtel”, “Canton Neuchatel”, “CH024”, “Neuchâtel”, and “Neuenburg”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

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

Peak
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is a peak in the Jura Mountains, located between and in the canton of Neuchâtel.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the municipality of , in the canton of Neuchâtel. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Neuchâtel–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches line of Swiss Federal Railways.

Railway station
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The La Chaux-de-Fonds–Les Ponts-de-Martel railway is a metre-gauge railway in the Swiss Jura. It is operated by the Transports publics Neuchâtelois and has connected the municipalities of and in the Vallée des Ponts with since 26 July 1889.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Corcelles-Cormondrèche and Rochefort.

Village
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is a former municipality in the district of Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel in . On 1 January 2021 the former municipalities of , and merged into the municipality of .

Village
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is a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel in . On 1 January 2016 it absorbed the small municipality of .

Village
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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
Open­Street­Map ID
node 760018446
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2659495
Wiki­data ID
Q12738
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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 Неўшатэль”
  • Belarusian: “кантон Нёўшатэль”
  • Belarusian: “Неўшатэль (кантон)”
  • Belarusian: “Нёўшатэль (кантон)”
  • 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: “Neuchâtel Chiu”
  • Chinese: “新城堡州”
  • 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: “État de 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”
  • Hindi: “न्यूशैटल छावनी”
  • 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: “Kanton Neuenburg”
  • Luxembourgish: “Neuchâtel”
  • Macedonian: “Нешател”
  • Macedonian: “Нојенбург”
  • 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: “Neuchatel”
  • Spanish: “Neuchâtel”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Neuchâtel”
  • Swedish: “Neuchâtel (kanton)”
  • Swedish: “Neuchâtel”
  • Swiss German: “Kanton Nöieburg”
  • Tajik: “Нёшатель”
  • Tamil: “காண்டோன் ஆப் னேஉச்சிட்டல்”
  • Tatar: “Нёшатель”
  • Telugu: “కాంటన్ ఆఫ్ న్యూచాటెల్”
  • Thai: “รัฐเนอชาแตล”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kanton Neuenburg”
  • Turkish: “canton de Neuchâtel”
  • Turkish: “Neuchatel (kanton)”
  • Turkish: “Neuchâtel kantonu”
  • 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”
  • “NE”

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