Forch
Forch is a village and a mountain pass located in the municipalities of Küsnacht and Maur in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 284 residents
- Description: mountain pass and village in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Forch (südl. Teil)” and “Forch (suedl. Teil)”
- Postal code: 8127
Places of Interest
Highlights include Forch railway station and Forchdenkmal.
Forch railway station
Railway station
Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Forch is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Zurich and the municipality of Küsnacht, serving the village of Forch. It is the principal intermediate station and headquarters of the Forch Railway, which is operated as Zurich S-Bahn service S18 and provides links to the city of Zurich and the nearby village of Esslingen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zumikon and Maur.
Zumikon
Village
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zumikon is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. It is located in the Pfannenstiel region.
Maur
Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maur is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
Binz
Village
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Binz is a village, which is situated 4 km northwest of Forch.
Forch
- Categories: mountain pass, locality, and Ortschaft
- Location: Küsnacht (ZH), Meilen District, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.32555° or 47° 19′ 32″ northLongitude
8.64681° or 8° 38′ 49″ eastPopulation
284Elevation
679 metres (2,228 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH FCHOpen location code
8FVC8JGW+6POpenStreetMap ID
node 448772397OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Western Panjabi—“Forch” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Форч”
- Catalan: “Forch”
- Cebuano: “Forch”
- Dutch: “Forch”
- Esperanto: “Forch”
- Esperanto: “Forchpasejo”
- French: “Forch”
- German: “Aesch bei Maur”
- German: “Forch”
- German: “Maur-Forch”
- Italian: “Forch”
- Korean: “포어히”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Forch”
- Swedish: “Forch”
- Western Panjabi: “فورخ”
- “Forch”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Franzosenhöhe and Gemeindewasserwerk Maur.
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