Canton of Fribourg
The canton of Fribourg, also canton of Freiburg, is located in western Switzerland. The canton is bilingual, with French spoken by more than two thirds of the citizens and German by a little more than a quarter.
- Type: State with 325,000 residents
- Description: canton of Switzerland
- Also known as: “Cantão de Friburgo”, “Cantuni di Friburgu”, “CH022”, “FR”, “Freibourg”, “Freiburg kantonu”, “Freiburg, Switzerland”, “Freiburgi kanton”, “Fribourg”, “Fribourg/Freiburg”, “Friburgu (cantuni)”, “Фрыбур (кантон)”, “פריבורג”, and “קנטון פריבורג”
- Neighbors: Vaud
Places of Interest
Highlights: Baillival Castle and Baillival Castle in Vuippens.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Roche and Corbières.
La Roche
Village
Corbières
Village
Canton of Fribourg
- Categories: canton of Switzerland, federated state, administrative territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Canton of Fribourg” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kanton Fribourg”
- Albanian: “Kantoni Fribourg”
- Amharic: “ፍሪቡርግ”
- Arabic: “فرايبورغ”
- Arabic: “كانتون فرايبورغ”
- Arabic: “كانتون فريبورغ”
- Aragonese: “Cantón de Friburgo”
- Armenian: “Ֆրիբուրգ”
- Arpitan: “Quenton de Fribôrg”
- Asturian: “Cantón de Friburgu”
- Azerbaijani: “Freburg”
- Balinese: “Kanton Fribourg”
- Basque: “Friburgo kantonamendua”
- Belarusian: “кантон Фрыбур”
- Belarusian: “Фрыбур”
- Bengali: “ক্যান্টন অফ ফিরবার্গ”
- Bosnian: “Fribourg”
- Breton: “Kanton Freiburg”
- Breton: “Kanton Fribourg”
- Bulgarian: “Фрибур”
- Catalan: “Cantó de Friburg”
- Catalan: “Friburg”
- Cebuano: “Canton de Fribourg”
- Chinese: “夫里堡”
- Chinese: “弗里堡州”
- Corsican: “Cantone di Friburgu”
- Corsican: “Friburgu”
- Croatian: “Fribourg”
- Czech: “Fribourg”
- Danish: “Kanton Fribourg”
- Dutch: “Fribourg”
- Esperanto: “Friburgo”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Friburgo”
- Estonian: “Fribourgi kanton”
- Finnish: “Fribourg”
- French: “canton de Fribourg”
- French: “Canton de Fribourg”
- French: “Etat de Fribourg”
- French: “État de Fribourg”
- French: “Fribourg”
- Galician: “Cantón de Friburgo”
- Georgian: “ფრიბურის კანტონი”
- German: “Freiburg”
- German: “Kanton Freiburg”
- German: “Staat Freiburg”
- Greek: “Καντόνι του Φριμπούρ”
- Greek: “καντόνιο του Φριμπούρ”
- Gujarati: “કેન્ટન ઓફ ફ્રિબર્ગ”
- Hausa: “Fribourg”
- Hebrew: “פריבור”
- Hebrew: “קנטון פריבור”
- Hindi: “फ़्राइबूर्ग कैन्टन”
- Hungarian: “Fribourg kanton”
- Icelandic: “Fribourg”
- Iloko: “Friburgo”
- Iloko: “Kanton ti Friburgo”
- Indonesian: “Kanton Fribourg”
- Interlingua: “Canton de Fribourg”
- Interlingua: “Canton Fribourg”
- Interlingue: “Canton de Fribourg”
- Irish: “cantún Fribourg”
- Italian: “Canton Friburgo”
- Italian: “Friburgo”
- Japanese: “フリブール州”
- Javanese: “Kanton Fribourg”
- Kannada: “ಫ್ರಿಬೋರ್ಗ್ನ ಕ್ಯಾಂಟನ್”
- Kazakh: “Фрибур”
- Kirghiz: “Фрибур”
- Korean: “프리부르 주”
- Korean: “프리부르/프리부르크”
- Korean: “프리부르주”
- Kurdish: “Fribourg (kanton)”
- Kurdish: “Fribourg”
- Ladin: “Cianton de Fribourg”
- Latin: “Friburgensis”
- Latin: “Friburgum”
- Latvian: “Fribūras kantons”
- Limburgan: “Fribourg”
- Lingala: “Kanton ya Friburg”
- Lithuanian: “Fribūro kantonas”
- Lombard: “Canton Friburgo”
- Luxembourgish: “Fribourg”
- Luxembourgish: “Kanton Fribourg”
- Macedonian: “Фрибур”
- Malay: “Fribourg”
- Marathi: “फ्रिबोर्ग”
- Mazanderani: “فریبورگ کانتون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fribourg Chiu”
- Northern Frisian: “Freiburg”
- Northern Sami: “Fribourg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fribourg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kantonen Fribourg”
- Norwegian: “Fribourg”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Canton de Friborg”
- Oromo: “Fribourg”
- Ossetian: “Фрибур (кантон)”
- Ossetian: “Фрибур”
- Panjabi: “ਫ੍ਰਿਬੋਰਗ”
- Persian: “فریبورگ”
- Persian: “کانتون فریبورگ”
- Piemontese: “Canton ëd Friborgh”
- Polish: “Fryburg”
- Portuguese: “Friburgo”
- Pushto: “فريبورګ”
- Pushto: “فریبورګ”
- Romanian: “cantonul Fribourg”
- Romanian: “Cantonul Fribourg”
- Romansh: “Chantun Friburg”
- Romansh: “Friburg”
- Russian: “Фрибур”
- Scots: “Canton o Fribourg”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fribourg”
- Serbian: “Кантон Фрибур”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fribourg”
- Sicilian: “Canton Friburgu”
- Sinhala: “ෆ්ර්යිබර්ග් දිස්ත්රික්කය”
- Slovak: “Fribourg”
- Slovenian: “Kanton Fribourg”
- Somali: “Fribourg”
- South Azerbaijani: “فریبورق”
- South Azerbaijani: “فریبورگ”
- Spanish: “Cantón de Friburgo”
- Spanish: “Friburgo”
- Swahili: “Jimbo la Fribourg”
- Swedish: “Fribourg”
- Swiss German: “Kanton Freiburg”
- Swiss German: “Kanton Frybùrg”
- Tajik: “Фрибур”
- Tamil: “கேண்டோன் ஆப் பிரிபெர்க்”
- Tatar: “Фрибур”
- Telugu: “కాంటన్ ఆఫ్ ఫ్రైబోర్గ్”
- Thai: “รัฐฟรีบูร์”
- Turkish: “Freiburg”
- Turkish: “Fribourg”
- Ukrainian: “Фрібур”
- Urdu: “کینٹن فریبور”
- Uzbek: “Friburg”
- Venetian: “Canton Friburgo”
- Vietnamese: “Fribourg”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fribourg”
- Welsh: “Fribourg”
- Western Panjabi: “فرائبورگ”
- Wu Chinese: “弗里堡州”
- Yue Chinese: “傅賴堡州”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Redon and Le Marais.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Eglise Hauteville and Plage de Gumefens.
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