Aigle

Aigle is a historic town and a municipality and the capital of the district of Aigle in the canton of in . The official language of Aigle is Swiss French.
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  • Type: Town with 11,400 residents
  • Description: town and municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Aelen” and “Aigle VD”
  • Postal code: 1860

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aigle railway station and Aigle-Dépôt station.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the municipality of Aigle, in the canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Simplon line of Swiss Federal Railways and the terminus of three 1,000 mm gauge lines operated by Transports Publics du Chablais: the Aigle–Leysin, Aigle–Ollon–Monthey–Champéry, and Aigle–Sépey–Diablerets lines.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Railway stop
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is a railway stop.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yvorne and Veyges.

Village
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is a municipality of the canton of in , located in the district of Aigle.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Aigle in the canton of in , sited in the foothills of the mountains to the south-east of the Lake of Geneva. The old German language name Olun is no longer used. is situated 3 km southeast of Aigle.

Aigle

Latitude
46.3179° or 46° 19′ 4″ north
Longitude
6.96889° or 6° 58′ 8″ east
Population
11,400
Elevation
410 metres (1,345 feet)
IATA airport code
ZDC
United Nations Location Code
CH AIG
Open location code
8FR88X99+5H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 197506297
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2661834
Wiki­data ID
Q43195
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Waray—“Aigle” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Aigle”
  • Arabic: “إيغل”
  • Aragonese: “Aigle”
  • Armenian: “Էգլ”
  • Arpitan: “Âgllo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Eql”
  • Basque: “Aigle”
  • Breton: “Aigle”
  • Bulgarian: “Егъл”
  • Catalan: “Aigle”
  • Cebuano: “Aigle (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Aigle”
  • Chinese: “埃格勒”
  • Chinese: “艾格勒”
  • Chinese: “艾高”
  • Croatian: “Aigle”
  • Czech: “Aigle”
  • Danish: “Aigle”
  • Dutch: “Aigle”
  • Esperanto: “Aigle VD”
  • Esperanto: “Aigle”
  • Estonian: “Aigle”
  • Finnish: “Aigle”
  • French: “Aigle VD”
  • French: “Aigle”
  • German: “Aigle VD”
  • German: “Aigle”
  • Greek: “Εγκλ”
  • Hebrew: “אגל”
  • Hindi: “एग्ल”
  • Hungarian: “Aigle”
  • Indonesian: “Aigle”
  • Irish: “Aigle”
  • Italian: “Aigle VD”
  • Italian: “Aigle”
  • Japanese: “エーグル (スイス)”
  • Japanese: “エーグル”
  • Korean: “에이글”
  • Kurdish: “Aigle”
  • Latvian: “Eigle”
  • Lithuanian: “Eglis”
  • Lombard: “Aigle”
  • Macedonian: “Егл”
  • Malay: “Aigle”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aigle”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aigle”
  • Norwegian: “Aigle”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Aigle”
  • Persian: “اگل، سوئیس”
  • Polish: “Aigle”
  • Portuguese: “Aigle”
  • Romanian: “Aigle, Elveția”
  • Romansh: “Aigle”
  • Russian: “Эгль”
  • Sicilian: “Aigle”
  • Silesian: “Aigle”
  • Slovenian: “Aigle”
  • Spanish: “Aigle”
  • Swedish: “Aigle”
  • Swiss German: “Aigle VD”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Aigle VD”
  • Turkish: “Aigle”
  • Ukrainian: “Егль”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Aigle”
  • Urdu: “ایگل”
  • Venetian: “Aigle”
  • Vietnamese: “Aigle”
  • Volapük: “Aigle”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aigle”
  • “Aigle”
  • “Aigle VD”

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