Western Switzerland
Vaud
Aigle District

Bex

Bex is a municipality in the canton of , , located in the district of Aigle. It is a few kilometers south of its sister town municipality of Aigle.
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  • Type: Village with 7,360 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Bex VD” and “CH5402”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bex railway station and Duin Tower.

Railway station
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station in the municipality of Bex, in the canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the Simplon line and the terminus of the Bex–Villars–Bretaye line.

Castle
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The Tower of Duin is the last remaining tower of a former medieval castle located on a hill south of Bex, .

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint-Maurice and Villars-sur-Ollon.

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is a cosy small town in , . It looks back on a long history, with the first mention in the year 200 as a Roman outpost. It is famous for its abbey.

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is a village in in the canton of . It is part of the municipality of Ollon. Villars is a ski resort close to and , which offers a reasonable range of pistes at a moderate altitude.

Town
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is the capital of the district of in the canton of in . is situated 5 km west of Bex.

Bex

Latitude
46.2514° or 46° 15′ 5″ north
Longitude
7.0124° or 7° 0′ 45″ east
Population
7,360
Elevation
1,075 metres (3,527 feet)
Open location code
8FR97226+HX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 197505823
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
7285233
Wiki­data ID
Q52261
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Bex” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بي”
  • Arpitan: “Bés”
  • Arpitan: “Béx”
  • Basque: “Bex”
  • Breton: “Bex”
  • Bulgarian: “Бе”
  • Catalan: “Bex”
  • Cebuano: “Bex (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Bex”
  • Chinese: “贝城”
  • Czech: “Bex”
  • Danish: “Bex”
  • Dutch: “Bex”
  • Esperanto: “Bex”
  • Finnish: “Bex”
  • French: “Bex VD”
  • French: “Bex”
  • German: “Bex VD”
  • German: “Bex”
  • Hebrew: “בה”
  • Hungarian: “Bex”
  • Irish: “Bex”
  • Italian: “Bex VD”
  • Italian: “Bex”
  • Japanese: “ベー (スイス)”
  • Korean: “베”
  • Latvian: “Beksa”
  • Lombard: “Bex”
  • Macedonian: “Бекс”
  • Malay: “Bex”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bex”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bex”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bex”
  • Polish: “Bex”
  • Portuguese: “Bex”
  • Romanian: “Bex”
  • Romansh: “Bex”
  • Russian: “Бекс”
  • Slovak: “Bex”
  • Spanish: “Bex”
  • Swedish: “Bex”
  • Swiss German: “Bex”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bex”
  • Turkish: “Bex”
  • Ukrainian: “Бе”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bex”
  • Venetian: “Bex”
  • Volapük: “Bex”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bex”

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