Brig
Brig, known as Brig in German and Briga in Italian, is a town and former municipality in the canton of Valais. It is part of the municipality of Brig-Glis.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Brig railway station
Railway station
Brig railway station is an important railway junction in the municipality of Brig-Glis, in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland. Opened in 1878, it is adjacent to the northern portal of the Simplon Tunnel and is served by two standard gauge lines.
Brig Bahnhofplatz railway station
Railway station
Photo: Photnart, Public domain.
Brig Bahnhofplatz railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Brig-Glis, in the Swiss 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.
Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche
Church
Photo: Xenos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Naters and Glis.
Naters
Village
Photo: Summi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Naters is a municipality in the district of Brig in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Birgisch and Mund merged into the municipality of Naters, which also includes the villages of Hegdorn, Geimen, Mehlbaum, Rischinen and Blatten bei Naters.
Ried-Brig
Village
Photo: Bene16, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ried-Brig is a municipality in the district of Brig in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Brig
- Categories: former municipality of Switzerland, neighborhood, and locality
- Location: Brig, Brig District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.31635° or 46° 18′ 59″ northLongitude
7.98795° or 7° 59′ 17″ eastPopulation
12,800Elevation
680 metres (2,231 feet)IATA airport code
ZDLUnited Nations Location Code
CH BRIOpen location code
8FR98X8Q+G5OpenStreetMap ID
node 57722283OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2661394Wikidata 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”
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