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Goms District
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Lax

Lax is a municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of in . Lax has about 286 residents and an elevation of 1,057 metres.
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  • Type: Village with 286 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Valais, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Lax VS” and “Lax, Switzerland”
  • Postal code: 3994
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Anna church and Lax railway station.

Church
Photo: Zinat, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Railway station
Photo: Gestumblindi, CC BY 3.0.
is a railway station in the municipality of Lax, in the canton of Valais. It is an intermediate stop on the 1,000 mm metre gauge Furka Oberalp line of the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn and is served by local trains only.

Church
Photo: Zinat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Martisberg and Fiesch.

Village
Photo: Cal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a former municipality in the district of in the canton of in . On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of and merged into the new municipality of .

Photo: Tobi 87, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village in the . It is the access point for the nearby villages of Fiescheralp, Fieschertal and Bellwald.

Hamlet
Photo: Zinat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a former municipality of the canton of , , and now part of the municipality of . Prior to its incorporation within Ernen, it was one of Switzerland's smallest municipalities with a population of only 47 as of 2000.

Lax

Latitude
46.38888° or 46° 23′ 20″ north
Longitude
8.11957° or 8° 7′ 10″ east
Population
286
Elevation
1,057 metres (3,468 feet)
Open location code
8FRC94Q9+HR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240029353
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2659982
Wiki­data ID
Q70363
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Lax” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Lax”
  • Breton: “Lax”
  • Catalan: “Lax”
  • Cebuano: “Lax”
  • Chinese: “拉克斯”
  • Czech: “Lax VS”
  • Czech: “Lax”
  • Dutch: “Lax”
  • Esperanto: “Lax VS”
  • Esperanto: “Lax”
  • French: “Lax”
  • German: “Lax VS”
  • German: “Lax”
  • Hungarian: “Lax”
  • Irish: “Lax”
  • Italian: “Lax”
  • Lombard: “Lax”
  • Malay: “Lax, Switzerland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lax i Sveits”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lax”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lax”
  • Piemontese: “Lax”
  • Polish: “Lax”
  • Portuguese: “Lax”
  • Romansh: “Lax”
  • Spanish: “Lax”
  • Swedish: “Lax, Valais”
  • Swedish: “Lax”
  • Swiss German: “Lax VS”
  • Swiss German: “Lax”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Lax VS”
  • Turkish: “Lax”
  • Ukrainian: “Лакс”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Lax”
  • Venetian: “Lax”
  • Volapük: “Lax”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lax, Swiza”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lax”
  • Welsh: “Lax”

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