Canton of Zurich
Zürich District
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Fluntern

Fluntern is a quarter in the district 7 in Zürich, Switzerland. It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zürich in 1893. The quarter has a population of 7,325 distributed on an area of 2.84 km2.
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  • Type: Suburb with 7,010 residents
  • Description: quarter of the city of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Zuerich (Kreis 7) / Fluntern” and “Zürich (Kreis 7) / Fluntern”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Grosse Kirche Fluntern and University Hospital of Zurich.

Church
Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Hospital
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY 3.0.
The University Hospital of Zürich is one of five university hospitals in Switzerland. The first hospital in Zürich, from which the current hospital derives, is recorded as having existed as early as 1204.

Railway station
Photo: Ikiwaner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zürich Hauptbahnhof, often shortened to Zürich HB or just HB, and known in English as , is the largest railway station in and one of the busiest in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hottingen and Niederdorf.

Suburb
is a quarter in of . It was formerly a municipality of its own, but was incorporated into Zurich in 1893. The quarter has a population of 10,100 in an area of 5.05 square kilometres.

Locality
Photo: Morgner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a locality.

Suburb
is a quarter in the in . It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893. As of 2025, the quarter has a population of 11,083 distributed on an area of 2.64 km2.

Fluntern

Latitude
47.37678° or 47° 22′ 36″ north
Longitude
8.55878° or 8° 33′ 32″ east
Population
7,010
Elevation
561 metres (1,841 feet)
Open location code
8FVC9HG5+PG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 525903857
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
6295506
Wiki­data ID
Q693269
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Upper Sorbian—“Fluntern” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Zürich”
  • Danish: “Fluntern”
  • Dutch: “Fluntern”
  • French: “Fluntern”
  • German: “Fluntern”
  • Irish: “Fluntern”
  • Italian: “Fluntern”
  • Latin: “Fluntern”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fluntern”
  • Russian: “Флунтерн”
  • Spanish: “Fluntern”
  • Turkish: “Fluntern”
  • Ukrainian: “Флюнтерн”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Fluntern”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Hochschulen and Rathaus.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Alte Kirche Fluntern and Postagentur 8044 Zürich Fluntern.

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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 “Fluntern”. Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.