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Canton of Bern

The canton of Bern or Berne is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. Its capital city, , is also the de facto capital of Switzerland.
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  • Type: State with 1,040,000 residents
  • Description: canton of Switzerland
  • Also known as: “BE”, “Bern”, “Bern/Berne”, “Berne”, “Canton of Berne”, and “CH021”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Oberdiessbach Castle and Gerzensee.

Castle
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German: Schloss Oberdiessbach is a castle in the municipality of of the Canton of Bern in . It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Lake
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is a in canton of Bern, . Its surface area is 25 ha. It gives the name to the village of .

Castle
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is a castle located in in the Canton of Bern in . The castle was built in the 17th century for the Effinger family, of lower nobility, in the place of a ruin of a fort in same place.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Thun and Münsingen.

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is a small city in the of Bern Canton, . Its surface area is 21.7 km², and it had about 44,000 inhabitants in 2017.

Town
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is a municipality in the in the canton of Bern in . On 1 January 2013 the former municipality of merged into , and on 1 January 2017 the former municipality of also merged.

Town
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is a municipality in the administrative district of in the canton of Bern in . On 1 January 2020 the former municipality of merged into the municipality of .

Canton of Bern

Latitude
46.8382° or 46° 50′ 18″ north
Longitude
7.6005° or 7° 36′ 2″ east
Population
1,040,000
Elevation
623 metres (2,044 feet)
Abbreviation
“BE”
Open location code
8FR9RJQ2+75
Open­Street­Map ID
node 292532875
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2661551
Wiki­data ID
Q11911
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Canton of Bern” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bern”
  • Afrikaans: “Kanton Bern”
  • Albanian: “Kantoni Bern”
  • Arabic: “برن”
  • Arabic: “كانتون برن”
  • Aragonese: “Berna”
  • Aragonese: “Cantón de Berna”
  • Armenian: “Բեռն”
  • Arpitan: “Bèrna”
  • Arpitan: “Quenton de Bèrna”
  • Asturian: “Berna”
  • Asturian: “Cantón de Berna”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bern kantonu”
  • Balinese: “Kanton Bern”
  • Basque: “Berna kantonamendua”
  • Belarusian: “Берн (кантон)”
  • Belarusian: “Берн”
  • Belarusian: “Бэрн”
  • Bengali: “ক্যান্টন অব বার্ন”
  • Bosnian: “Bern”
  • Breton: “Bern”
  • Breton: “Kanton Bern”
  • Bulgarian: “Берн”
  • Catalan: “Berna”
  • Catalan: “Cantó de Berna”
  • Cebuano: “Berne”
  • Cebuano: “Canton de Berne”
  • Chinese: “Bern Chiu”
  • Chinese: “伯恩州”
  • Chuvash: “Берн”
  • Cornish: “Bern”
  • Corsican: “Berna”
  • Croatian: “Bern”
  • Czech: “Bern”
  • Danish: “Bern”
  • Danish: “Kanton Bern”
  • Dutch: “Bern”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كانتون بيرن”
  • Esperanto: “Berno”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Berno”
  • Estonian: “Berni kanton”
  • Finnish: “Bern”
  • French: “BE”
  • French: “Berne”
  • French: “canton de Berne”
  • French: “Canton de Berne”
  • Galician: “BE”
  • Galician: “Berna”
  • Galician: “Cantón de Berna”
  • Georgian: “ბერნის კანტონი”
  • German: “BE”
  • German: “Bern”
  • German: “Kanton Bern”
  • Greek: “Καντόνι της Βέρνης”
  • Gujarati: “કેન્ટન ઓફ બર્ન”
  • Hebrew: “ברן”
  • Hebrew: “קנטון ברן”
  • Hindi: “बर्न कैन्टन”
  • Hindi: “बर्न छावनी”
  • Hungarian: “Bern kanton”
  • Icelandic: “Bern”
  • Iloko: “Berna”
  • Iloko: “Kanton ti Berna”
  • Indonesian: “Bern”
  • Indonesian: “Kanton Bern”
  • Interlingue: “Bern”
  • Interlingue: “Canton de Bern”
  • Irish: “Bern”
  • Irish: “cantún Bern”
  • Italian: “BE”
  • Italian: “Berna”
  • Italian: “Canton Berna”
  • Italian: “Cantone di Berna”
  • Japanese: “ベルン州”
  • Javanese: “Bern”
  • Javanese: “Kanton Bern”
  • Kannada: “ಬರ್ನ್ ಕ್ಯಾಂಟನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Берн”
  • Korean: “베른 주”
  • Korean: “베른”
  • Korean: “베른주”
  • Kurdish: “Bern”
  • Ladin: “Cianton de Bern”
  • Latin: “Berna”
  • Latvian: “Bernes kantons”
  • Limburgan: “Bern”
  • Lingala: “Kanton ya Bern”
  • Lithuanian: “Berno kantonas”
  • Lombard: “Berna”
  • Lombard: “Canton Berna”
  • Luxembourgish: “BE”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bern”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kanton Bern”
  • Macedonian: “Берн”
  • Malay: “Bern”
  • Maltese: “Bern”
  • Marathi: “बर्न”
  • Mazanderani: “برن کانتون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bern Chiu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bern”
  • Northern Sami: “Bern”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bern”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Berne”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kantonen Bern”
  • Norwegian: “Bern”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Canton de Bèrna”
  • Ossetian: “Берн (кантон)”
  • Ossetian: “Берн”
  • Persian: “ایالت برن”
  • Persian: “کانتون برن”
  • Piemontese: “Canton ëd Berna”
  • Polish: “Berno”
  • Portuguese: “BE”
  • Portuguese: “Berna”
  • Portuguese: “Berne”
  • Romanian: “Berna”
  • Romanian: “Cantonul Berna”
  • Romansh: “Berna”
  • Romansh: “Chantun Berna”
  • Russian: “Берн”
  • Russian: “кантон Берн”
  • Rusyn: “Берн”
  • Scots: “Canton o Bern”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bern”
  • Serbian: “Берн”
  • Serbian: “Кантон Берн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bern”
  • Sicilian: “Canton Berna”
  • Sinhala: “බෙම් ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Bern”
  • Slovenian: “BE”
  • Slovenian: “Bern”
  • Slovenian: “Kanton Bern”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برن”
  • Spanish: “BE”
  • Spanish: “Berna”
  • Spanish: “Cantón de Berna”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Bern”
  • Swedish: “Bern”
  • Swedish: “Berns kanton”
  • Swiss German: “Bärn”
  • Swiss German: “Kanton Bern”
  • Tamil: “கான்டோன் ஆப் பெர்ன்”
  • Tatar: “Берн кантоны”
  • Tatar: “Берн кантуны”
  • Telugu: “కాంటన్ ఆఫ్ బెర్న్”
  • Thai: “รัฐเบิร์น”
  • Thai: “รัฐแบร์น”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kanton Bern”
  • Turkish: “BE”
  • Turkish: “Bern (kanton)”
  • Turkish: “Bern kantonu”
  • Turkish: “Bern”
  • Turkish: “Berna”
  • Turkish: “Berne”
  • Turkish: “canton de Berne”
  • Ukrainian: “Берн (кантон)”
  • Ukrainian: “Берн”
  • Urdu: “کینٹن برن”
  • Venetian: “Canton Berna”
  • Vietnamese: “BE”
  • Vietnamese: “Bern”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bern”
  • Welsh: “Bern”
  • Western Panjabi: “برن کینٹن”
  • Wu Chinese: “伯尔尼州”
  • Yue Chinese: “伯恩州”
  • “ma kipisi Pen”
  • “ma lili Pen”

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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 “Canton of Bern”. Photo: Martin Abegglen, CC BY-SA 2.0.