Cham
Zug is a town of 31,345 people in the Zurich region of Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zug. This article also covers the neighbouring town of Cham.
- Type: Town with 16,700 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Bibersee”, “Cham (Switzerland)”, “Cham, Switzerland”, “Enikon”, “Friesencham”, “Hagendorn”, “Hatwil”, “Kirchbühl”, “Lindencham”, “Niederwil”, “Niederwil ZG”, “Oberwil”, “Rumentikon”, “Städtli”, and “Хам (місто)”
- Postal code: 6330
- Neighbors: Zug
Places of Interest
Highlights: Cham railway station and St. Jakob Catholic Church.
Cham railway station
Railway station
Cham railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Cham, in the Swiss canton of Zug.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Steinhausen and St. Wolfgang / Wart.
Steinhausen
Town
Hünenberg
Village
Cham
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Cham, Zug, Canton of Zug, Zurich, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.18238° or 47° 10′ 57″ north
Longitude
8.4611° or 8° 27′ 40″ east
Population
16,700
Elevation
420 metres (1,378 feet)
UN/LOCODE
CH HHM
Open location code
8FVC5FJ6+XC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Cham” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Cham”
- Aragonese: “Cham”
- Armenian: “Խամ (քաղաք)”
- Armenian: “Խամ”
- Basque: “Cham”
- Breton: “Cham”
- Catalan: “Cham”
- Cebuano: “Cham”
- Chinese: “卡姆”
- Chuvash: “Хам”
- Czech: “Cham”
- Danish: “Cham”
- Dutch: “Cham”
- Esperanto: “Ĥamo”
- Estonian: “Chami vald”
- Faroese: “Cham”
- Finnish: “Cham”
- French: “Cham”
- German: “Cham ZG”
- German: “Cham”
- Hebrew: “כאם”
- Hungarian: “Cham”
- Indonesian: “Cham, Swiss”
- Indonesian: “Cham”
- Irish: “Cham, An Eilvéis”
- Italian: “Cham”
- Japanese: “シャム”
- Kalaallisut: “Cham”
- Kazakh: “Хам”
- Korean: “함”
- Kurdish: “Cham, Swîsre”
- Latin: “Chama”
- Latvian: “Hama”
- Latvian: “Hāma”
- Lithuanian: “Čamas”
- Lombard: “Cham”
- Luxembourgish: “Cham”
- Macedonian: “Хам”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cham, Zug”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cham”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cham”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cham i Sveits”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cham”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cham”
- Persian: “شم، سوئیس”
- Persian: “شم”
- Piemontese: “Cham”
- Polish: “Cham”
- Portuguese: “Cham”
- Romanian: “Cham, Zug”
- Russian: “Хам”
- Serbian: “Кам”
- Slovenian: “Cham”
- Spanish: “Cham”
- Swedish: “Cham, Schweiz”
- Swedish: “Cham”
- Swiss German: “Cham ZG”
- Swiss German: “Cham”
- Thai: “คาม”
- Turkish: “Cham, İsviçre”
- Turkish: “Cham”
- Ukrainian: “Хам”
- Upper Sorbian: “Cham”
- Urdu: “چیم، سوئٹزرلینڈ”
- Venetian: “Cham (Svisara)”
- Venetian: “Cham”
- Volapük: “Cham”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cham, Switzerland”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cham”
- Welsh: “Cham”
- “Cham”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Schulhaus Schürmatt and Städtli.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Poststelle 6330 Cham 1 and Neudorf.
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