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
is a castle in the municipality of of the in . It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Neuchatel and Cernier.

Neuchâtel is a town of 35,000 people in the western . Neuchâtel is part Suisse Romande — the French-speaking Switzerland.

Village
is the former capital of the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in . The municipalities of , , , , , , , ,

Village
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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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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