Bietschhorn
The Bietschhorn is a mountain in canton Wallis to the south of the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. The northeast and southern slopes of the mountain are part of the Jungfrau-Aletsch Protected Area listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site that also includes the Jungfrau and the Aletsch Glacier.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Kleines Nesthorn and Nestgletscher.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Blatten and Eisten.
Bietschhorn
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,933 metres
- Description: mountain in Switzerland
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Baltschieder, Visp District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.39157° or 46° 23′ 30″ northLongitude
7.85082° or 7° 51′ 3″ eastElevation
3,933 metres (12,904 feet)Open location code
8FR99VR2+J8OpenStreetMap ID
node 26862559OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Bietschhorn” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيتشورن”
- Belarusian: “Бічгорн”
- Bulgarian: “Биецчхорн”
- Bulgarian: “Бичхорн”
- Catalan: “Bietschhorn”
- Cebuano: “Bietschhorn”
- Chinese: “比奇峰”
- Czech: “Bietschhorn”
- Danish: “Bietschhorn”
- Dutch: “Bietschhorn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بيتشورن”
- Esperanto: “Bietschhorn”
- Finnish: “Bietschhorn”
- French: “Bietschhorn”
- Georgian: “ბიჩჰორნი”
- German: “Bietschhorn”
- Hebrew: “ביטשהורן”
- Italian: “Bietschhorn”
- Japanese: “ビーチホルン”
- Japanese: “ビエッチホルン”
- Korean: “비취호른”
- Ladin: “Bietschhorn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bietschhorn”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bietschhorn”
- Persian: “بیچهورن”
- Polish: “Bietschhorn”
- Portuguese: “Bietschhorn”
- Russian: “Бичхорн”
- Sindhi: “بيچارن جبل”
- Spanish: “Bietschhorn”
- Swahili: “Bietschhorn”
- Swedish: “Bietschhorn”
- Ukrainian: “Бічгорн”
- Venetian: “Bietschhorn”
- Western Panjabi: “بیٹشہارن”
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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 Wikipedia page “Bietschhorn”. Photo: Telnet, CC BY-SA 3.0.