Brig

Brig, known as Brigue in French and Briga in Italian, is a town and former municipality in the . It is part of the municipality of .
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Wikipedia
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  • Type: Town with 12,800 residents
  • Description: town in the canton of Valais, Switzerland, part of the municipality Brig-Glis
  • Also known as: “Brig, Switzerland”
  • Postal code: 3900

Places of Interest

Highlights include Brig railway station and Brig Bahnhofplatz railway station.

Railway station
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is an important railway junction in the municipality of Brig-Glis, in the Canton of , . Opened in 1878, it is adjacent to the northern portal of the and is served by two standard gauge lines.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the municipality of , in the canton of Valais. It is the meeting point of two 1,000 mm metre gauge railway lines of the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn, the BVZ Zermatt-Bahn and the Furka Oberalp Railway.

Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Naters and Glis.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Brig in the canton of in . On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of and merged into the municipality of , which also includes the villages of Hegdorn, Geimen, Mehlbaum, Rischinen and Blatten bei .

Village
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is a village.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Brig in the canton of in .

Brig

Latitude
46.31635° or 46° 18′ 59″ north
Longitude
7.98795° or 7° 59′ 17″ east
Population
12,800
Elevation
680 metres (2,231 feet)
IATA airport code
ZDL
United Nations Location Code
CH BRI
Open location code
8FR98X8Q+G5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 57722283
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2661394
Wiki­data ID
Q15582
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Brig” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Brigg”
  • Armenian: “Բրիգ”
  • Arpitan: “Brega”
  • Azerbaijani: “Briq”
  • Belarusian: “Брыг”
  • Bulgarian: “Бриг”
  • Catalan: “Brig”
  • Cebuano: “Brig (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Brig”
  • Chinese: “布里格”
  • Czech: “Brig”
  • Danish: “Brig”
  • Dutch: “Brig”
  • French: “Brigue-Glis”
  • French: “Brigue”
  • German: “Brig”
  • Hungarian: “Brig”
  • Irish: “Brig”
  • Italian: “Briga-Glis”
  • Italian: “Briga”
  • Japanese: “Brig”
  • Japanese: “ブリーク”
  • Japanese: “ブリク”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Briga”
  • Polish: “Brig”
  • Portuguese: “Briga-Glis”
  • Portuguese: “Briga”
  • Romanian: “Brig”
  • Russian: “Бриг”
  • Sicilian: “Briga”
  • Slovak: “Brig”
  • Spanish: “Brig”
  • Swedish: “Brig”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Brig”
  • Turkish: “Brig”
  • Ukrainian: “Бриг”
  • Ukrainian: “Бріґ”

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