Furka Pass

Furka Pass is a 2,429 m high mountain pass in the southern connecting , with , via the seasonal Furkapassroute. The Furka Oberalp Bahn bypasses the pass through the 1,390 m high Furka Base Tunnel, which opened in 1982 to replace the seasonal Furka Summit Tunnel at 2,160 metres.
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  • Type: Pass with an elevation of 2,424 metres
  • Description: mountain pass
  • Also known as: “Furka Passhöhe”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Furka DFB railway station and Klein Furkahorn.

Railway station
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is a metre gauge railway station at the eastern portal of the Furka Summit Tunnel, in the Canton of , . The station was opened in 1926.

Peak
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The is a mountain of the Urner Alps, overlooking the Furka Pass on the border between the Swiss cantons of and . It lies near the southern end of the - chain, east of the Rhone Glacier.

Hotel building
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is a hotel building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tiefenbach and Gletsch.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet, which is situated 4 km northeast of Furka Pass.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet in the German-speaking half of the canton of , located in the upper Rhone valley, called , 2.5 kilometres, southeast below the Rhone Glacier's mouth and itself the headwaters of the . is situated 4½ km west of Furka Pass.

Village
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is a village in the municipality of in in the canton of in . It is situated at an elevation of 1,377 m and had a population of 277 in December 2007. is situated 7 km southwest of Furka Pass.

Furka Pass

Latitude
46.57191° or 46° 34′ 19″ north
Longitude
8.41642° or 8° 24′ 59″ east
Elevation
2,424 metres (7,953 feet)
Open location code
8FRCHCC8+QH
Geo­Names ID
2660697
Wiki­data ID
Q666628
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Furka Pass” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Ֆուրկա լեռնանցք”
  • Basque: “Furka mendatea”
  • Bulgarian: “Фурка”
  • Bulgarian: “Фуркапас”
  • Catalan: “Coll Furka”
  • Cebuano: “Furkapass”
  • Chinese: “富尔卡山口”
  • Chinese: “富爾卡通道”
  • Croatian: “Furka Pass”
  • Croatian: “Furkapass”
  • Croatian: “Prijevoj Furka”
  • Czech: “Furkapass”
  • Danish: “Furkapasset”
  • Dutch: “Furkapas”
  • Esperanto: “Furka-Pasejo”
  • Esperanto: “Furkapass”
  • Esperanto: “Furko-Pasejo”
  • Esperanto: “Furkopasejo”
  • Estonian: “Furka kuru”
  • Finnish: “Furkapass”
  • Finnish: “Furkasola”
  • French: “col de la Furka”
  • French: “Col de la Furka”
  • French: “Furkapass”
  • German: “Furkapass”
  • German: “Hauptstrasse 511”
  • Hebrew: “מעבר פורקה”
  • Hungarian: “Furka-hágó”
  • Italian: “Finestra di Bedretto”
  • Italian: “Furka”
  • Italian: “Furkapass”
  • Italian: “Passo del Furka”
  • Italian: “Passo della Furka”
  • Japanese: “フルカ峠”
  • Korean: “푸르카 고개”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Furkapass”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Furkapasset”
  • Polish: “Furkapass”
  • Portuguese: “Colo da Furka”
  • Portuguese: “Passo da Furka”
  • Romanian: “Pasul Furka”
  • Romansh: “Pass dal Furca”
  • Russian: “Фурка”
  • Slovenian: “Furka”
  • Spanish: “Puerto de Furka”
  • Swedish: “Furkapass”
  • Swedish: “Furkapasset”
  • Thai: “ช่องเขาฟัวร์คา”
  • Thai: “ช่องเขาฟูร์กา”
  • Ukrainian: “Фурка”

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