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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  • Town with 12,800 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 680 metres (2,231 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code ZDL
  • …is also known as “Brig, Switzerland”
  • Description: town in the canton of Valais, Switzerland, part of the municipality Brig-Glis
  • Postal code: 3900

Places of Interest

Highlights include Brig railway station and Brig Bahnhofplatz railway station.
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is an important railway junction…
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is a railway station…
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Naters and Glis.
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is a municipality in the district of Brig in the canton of in .
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is a village.
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is a municipality in the district of Brig in the canton of in .

Brig

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Latitude
46.31635° or 46° 18′ 59″ north
Longitude
7.98795° or 7° 59′ 17″ east
UN/LOCODE
CH BRI
Open location code
8FR98X8Q+G5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 57722283
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2661394
Wiki­data ID
Q15582

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”
  • Swiss German: “Brig”
  • Turkish: “Brig”
  • Ukrainian: “Бриг”
  • Ukrainian: “Бріґ”

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