Val-de-Ruz District

Val-de-Ruz District was one of the six districts of the , , until the district level was eliminated on 1 January 2018. It consisted of the region of Val de Ruz and the surrounding Jura Mountains.
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  • Type: district of the canton of Neuchâtel with 17,400 residents
  • Description: former district in the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “District du Val-de-Ruz”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Les Hauts-Geneveys railway station and Valangin Castle.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is a railway station in the municipality of , in the canton of . It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Neuchâtel–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches line of Swiss Federal Railways.

Castle
Photo: Marie-Rose Python, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a castle in the municipality of of the in . It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Church
Photo: Sinenomine2, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Neuchatel and Cernier.

Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
Neuchâtel is a town of 35,000 people in the western . Neuchâtel is part Suisse Romande — the French-speaking Switzerland.

Village
Photo: Alphanet, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the former capital of the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in . The municipalities of , , , , , , , , …

Village
Photo: Pierre Bona, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a former municipality in the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in . On 1 January 2021 the former municipalities of , and merged into the municipality of .

Val-de-Ruz District

Latitude
47.0401° or 47° 2′ 24″ north
Longitude
6.9083° or 6° 54′ 30″ east
Population
17,400
Elevation
733 metres (2,405 feet)
Open location code
8FV82WR5+28
Geo­Names ID
6458812
Wiki­data ID
Q661256
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Satellite Map

Discover Val-de-Ruz District from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Waray—“Val-de-Ruz District” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Val-de-Ruz barrutia”
  • Catalan: “districte de Le Val-de-Ruz”
  • Catalan: “Districte de Le Val-de-Ruz”
  • Cebuano: “Val-de-Ruz District”
  • Chinese: “Val-de-Ruz Koān”
  • Dutch: “Val-de-Ruz”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Val-de-Ruz”
  • Esperanto: “Val-de-Ruz”
  • French: “District de Val-de-Ruz”
  • French: “district du Val-de-Ruz”
  • French: “District du Val-de-Ruz”
  • French: “Val-de-Ruz”
  • German: “Bezirk Val-de-Ruz”
  • German: “District du Val-de-Ruz”
  • Italian: “distretto di Val-de-Ruz”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Val-de-Ruz”
  • Italian: “Val-de-Ruz”
  • Latin: “Val-de-Ruz”
  • Lombard: “Val-de-Ruz”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Val-de-Ruz Koān”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Distriktet Val-de-Ruz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Val-de-Ruz”
  • Persian: “بخش ول دو روز”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Val de Ruz”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Val de-Ruz”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Val-de-Ruz”
  • Swedish: “Val-de-Ruz”
  • Swiss German: “Bezirk Val-de-Ruz”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bezirk Val-de-Ruz”
  • Venetian: “Distreto de Val-de-Ruz”
  • Vietnamese: “Val-de-Ruz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Val-de-Ruz”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Val de Ruz and Hôpital neuchâtelois, Site de Val-de-Ruz.

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