Cham

Zug is a town of 31,345 people in the region of and the capital of the canton of Zug. This article also covers the neighbouring town of Cham.
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  • Type: Town with 16,700 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland
  • Also known as: Cham (Switzerland)”, “Cham ZG”, and “Cham, Switzerland
  • Postal code: 6330
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cham railway station and St. Jakob Catholic Church.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is a railway station in the municipality of Cham, in the canton of . It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Zug–Lucerne line of Swiss Federal Railways.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Steinhausen and St. Wolfgang / Wart.

Village
is a city in the canton of Zug in . is situated 2½ km northeast of Cham.

Hamlet
is a hamlet, which is situated 2½ km west of Cham.

Village
is a municipality in the canton of Zug in . is situated 3 km west of Cham.

Cham

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)
United Nations Location Code
CH HHM
Open location code
8FVC5FJ6+XC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240109302
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2661228
Wiki­data ID
Q69235
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Cham” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Cham
  • Armenian: Խամ (քաղաք)
  • Armenian: Խամ
  • Basque: Cham
  • Breton: Cham
  • Catalan: Cham
  • Cebuano: Cham
  • Chinese: Cham, Zug
  • Chinese: 卡姆
  • Chuvash: Хам
  • Czech: Cham
  • Danish: Cham
  • Dutch: Cham
  • Esperanto: Bibersee
  • Esperanto: Cham ZG
  • Esperanto: Enikon
  • Esperanto: Friesencham
  • Esperanto: Hagendorn
  • Esperanto: Ĥamo
  • Esperanto: Kirchbühl
  • Esperanto: Lindencham
  • Esperanto: Niederwil
  • Esperanto: Oberwil
  • Esperanto: Rumentikon
  • Esperanto: Städtli
  • Estonian: Chami vald
  • Faroese: Cham
  • Finnish: Cham
  • French: Cham ZG
  • French: Cham
  • German: Cham ZG
  • German: Cham
  • German: Hatwil
  • German: Niederwil ZG
  • German: Rumentikon
  • Hebrew: כאם
  • Hungarian: Cham
  • Indonesian: Cham, Swiss
  • Indonesian: Cham
  • Irish: Cham, An Eilvéis
  • Italian: Cham
  • Japanese: シャム
  • Kalaallisut: Cham
  • Kazakh: Хам
  • Korean:
  • Kurdish: Cham, Swîsre
  • Latin: Chama
  • Latvian: Hama
  • Lithuanian: Čamas
  • Lombard: Cham
  • Luxembourgish: Cham
  • Macedonian: Хам
  • Min Nan Chinese: Cham
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Cham
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Cham i Sveits
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Cham ZG
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Cham
  • Occitan (post 1500): Cham
  • Persian: شم، سوئیس
  • 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
  • Tosk Albanian: Cham ZG
  • Turkish: Cham, İsviçre
  • Turkish: Cham
  • Ukrainian: Хам (місто)
  • Ukrainian: Хам
  • Upper Sorbian: Cham
  • Venetian: Cham (Svisara)
  • Venetian: Cham
  • Volapük: Cham
  • Waray (Philippines): Cham, Switzerland
  • Waray (Philippines): Cham
  • Welsh: Cham
  • Cham

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Cham”. Photo: Baikonur, CC BY-SA 3.0.