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Canton of Fribourg

The canton of Fribourg, also canton of Freiburg, is located in western . The canton is bilingual, with French spoken by more than two thirds of the citizens and German by a little more than a quarter.
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  • Type: State with 325,000 residents
  • Description: canton of Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Canton de Fribourg”, “CH022”, “FR”, “Freiburg”, “Freiburg, Switzerland”, “Fribourg”, “Fribourg/Freiburg”, and “Kanton Freiburg”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Baillival Castle and Vers-les-Tours, medieval castle and town ruins of Pont-en-Ogoz.

Castle
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is a bailiff's castle in the municipality of of the Canton of Fribourg in . It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Castle
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Castle
Photo: WWHenderson20, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Baillival Castle is a bailiff's castle in the village of Vuippens in the municipality of of the Canton of Fribourg in . It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include La Roche and Corbières.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in .

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in . On 1 January 2011 the former municipality of merged into the municipality of .

Village
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is a municipality within the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in .

Canton of Fribourg

Latitude
46.6789° or 46° 40′ 44″ north
Longitude
7.1027° or 7° 6′ 10″ east
Population
325,000
Elevation
731 metres (2,398 feet)
Abbreviation
“FR”
Open location code
8FR9M4H3+H3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1390170739
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2660717
Wiki­data ID
Q12640
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Canton of Fribourg” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “FR”
  • Afrikaans: “Kanton Fribourg”
  • Albanian: “Kantoni Fribourg”
  • Arabic: “كانتون فرايبورغ”
  • Arabic: “كانتون فريبورغ”
  • Aragonese: “Cantón de Friburgo”
  • Aragonese: “FR”
  • Armenian: “Ֆրիբուրգ”
  • Arpitan: “FR”
  • Arpitan: “Quenton de Fribôrg”
  • Asturian: “Cantón de Friburgu”
  • Asturian: “FR”
  • Balinese: “Kanton Fribourg”
  • Basque: “FR”
  • Basque: “Friburgo kantonamendua”
  • Bavarian: “FR”
  • Belarusian: “кантон Фрыбур”
  • Belarusian: “Фрыбур (кантон)”
  • Belarusian: “Фрыбур”
  • Bengali: “ক্যান্টন অফ ফিরবার্গ”
  • Bosnian: “Fribourg”
  • Breton: “FR”
  • Breton: “Kanton Freiburg”
  • Breton: “Kanton Fribourg”
  • Bulgarian: “Фрибур”
  • Catalan: “Cantó de Friburg”
  • Catalan: “FR”
  • Catalan: “Friburg”
  • Cebuano: “Canton de Fribourg”
  • Chinese: “Fribourg Chiu”
  • Chinese: “傅賴堡州”
  • Chinese: “夫里堡”
  • Chinese: “弗里堡州”
  • Corsican: “Cantone di Friburgu”
  • Corsican: “Friburgu”
  • Croatian: “FR”
  • Croatian: “Fribourg”
  • Czech: “FR”
  • Czech: “Fribourg”
  • Danish: “FR”
  • Danish: “Kanton Fribourg”
  • Dutch: “FR”
  • Dutch: “Fribourg”
  • Esperanto: “FR”
  • Esperanto: “Friburgo”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Friburgo”
  • Estonian: “FR”
  • Estonian: “Freiburgi kanton”
  • Estonian: “Fribourgi kanton”
  • Finnish: “FR”
  • Finnish: “Fribourg”
  • French: “canton de Fribourg”
  • French: “Canton de Fribourg”
  • French: “Etat de Fribourg”
  • French: “État de Fribourg”
  • French: “FR”
  • French: “Fribourg”
  • Friulian: “FR”
  • Galician: “Cantón de Friburgo”
  • Galician: “FR”
  • Georgian: “ფრიბურის კანტონი”
  • German: “FR”
  • German: “Freiburg”
  • German: “Kanton Freiburg”
  • German: “Staat Freiburg”
  • Greek: “Καντόνι του Φριμπούρ”
  • Greek: “καντόνιο του Φριμπούρ”
  • Gujarati: “કેન્ટન ઓફ ફ્રિબર્ગ”
  • Hebrew: “פריבור”
  • Hebrew: “פריבורג”
  • Hebrew: “קנטון פריבור”
  • Hebrew: “קנטון פריבורג”
  • Hindi: “फ़्राइबूर्ग कैन्टन”
  • Hungarian: “FR”
  • Hungarian: “Freiburg”
  • Hungarian: “Fribourg kanton”
  • Icelandic: “FR”
  • Icelandic: “Fribourg”
  • Ido: “FR”
  • Iloko: “Friburgo”
  • Iloko: “Kanton ti Friburgo”
  • Indonesian: “FR”
  • Indonesian: “Kanton Fribourg”
  • Interlingua: “Canton Fribourg”
  • Interlingua: “FR”
  • Interlingue: “Canton de Fribourg”
  • Interlingue: “FR”
  • Irish: “cantún Fribourg”
  • Irish: “FR”
  • Italian: “Canton Friburgo”
  • Italian: “FR”
  • Italian: “Friburgo”
  • Japanese: “フリブール州”
  • Javanese: “Kanton Fribourg”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ರಿಬೋರ್ಗ್ನ ಕ್ಯಾಂಟನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Фрибур”
  • Kongo: “FR”
  • Korean: “프리부르 주”
  • Korean: “프리부르/프리부르크”
  • Korean: “프리부르주”
  • Kurdish: “Fribourg (kanton)”
  • Kurdish: “Fribourg”
  • Ladin: “Cianton de Fribourg”
  • Latin: “Friburgensis”
  • Latin: “Friburgum”
  • Latvian: “Fribūras kantons”
  • Ligurian: “FR”
  • Limburgan: “FR”
  • Limburgan: “Fribourg”
  • Lingala: “Kanton ya Friburg”
  • Lithuanian: “Fribūro kantonas”
  • Lombard: “Canton Friburgo”
  • Low German: “FR”
  • Luxembourgish: “FR”
  • Macedonian: “Фрибур”
  • Malagasy: “FR”
  • Malay: “FR”
  • Malay: “Fribourg”
  • Marathi: “फ्रिबोर्ग”
  • Mazanderani: “فریبورگ کانتون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Fribourg Chiu”
  • Minangkabau: “FR”
  • Narom: “FR”
  • Neapolitan: “FR”
  • Northern Frisian: “Freiburg”
  • Northern Sami: “Fribourg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “FR”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fribourg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “FR”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kantonen Fribourg”
  • Norwegian: “Fribourg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Canton de Friborg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “FR”
  • Ossetian: “Фрибур (кантон)”
  • Ossetian: “Фрибур”
  • Persian: “فریبورگ”
  • Persian: “کانتون فریبورگ”
  • Picard: “FR”
  • Piemontese: “Canton ëd Friborgh”
  • Piemontese: “FR”
  • Polish: “FR”
  • Polish: “Fryburg”
  • Portuguese: “Cantão de Friburgo”
  • Portuguese: “FR”
  • Portuguese: “Friburgo”
  • Pushto: “فريبورګ”
  • Romanian: “cantonul Fribourg”
  • Romanian: “Cantonul Fribourg”
  • Romanian: “FR”
  • Romansh: “Chantun Friburg”
  • Romansh: “FR”
  • Romansh: “Friburg”
  • Russian: “Фрибур”
  • Sardinian: “FR”
  • Scots: “Canton o Fribourg”
  • Scots: “FR”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “FR”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Fribourg”
  • Serbian: “FR”
  • Serbian: “Кантон Фрибур”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fribourg”
  • Sicilian: “Canton Friburgu”
  • Sicilian: “Cantuni di Friburgu”
  • Sicilian: “FR”
  • Sicilian: “Friburgu (cantuni)”
  • Sinhala: “ෆ්ර්යිබර්ග් දිස්ත්‍රික්කය”
  • Slovak: “FR”
  • Slovak: “Fribourg”
  • Slovenian: “FR”
  • Slovenian: “Freibourg”
  • Slovenian: “Fribourg”
  • Slovenian: “Kanton Fribourg”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فریبورق”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فریبورگ”
  • Spanish: “Cantón de Friburgo”
  • Spanish: “Friburgo”
  • Swahili: “FR”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Fribourg”
  • Swedish: “FR”
  • Swedish: “Fribourg”
  • Swiss German: “FR”
  • Swiss German: “Kanton Frybùrg”
  • Tamil: “கேண்டோன் ஆப் பிரிபெர்க்”
  • Telugu: “కాంటన్ ఆఫ్ ఫ్రైబోర్గ్”
  • Thai: “รัฐฟรีบูร์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kanton Freiburg”
  • Turkish: “canton de Fribourg”
  • Turkish: “FR”
  • Turkish: “Freiburg kantonu”
  • Turkish: “Freiburg”
  • Turkish: “Fribourg”
  • Turkish: “Friburg”
  • Turkish: “Friburgo”
  • Turkish: “Friburgum”
  • Ukrainian: “Фрібур”
  • Urdu: “کینٹن فریبور”
  • Venetian: “Canton Friburgo”
  • Venetian: “FR”
  • Vietnamese: “FR”
  • Vietnamese: “Fribourg”
  • Vlaams: “FR”
  • Volapük: “FR”
  • Walloon: “FR”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Fribourg”
  • Welsh: “FR”
  • Welsh: “Fribourg”
  • Western Panjabi: “فرائبورگ”
  • Wolof: “FR”
  • Wu Chinese: “弗里堡州”
  • Yue Chinese: “傅賴堡州”
  • Zulu: “FR”

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