Saanen District
Saanen District is one of the 26 administrative districts in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. Its capital, while having administrative power, was the municipality of Saanen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 6,820 residents
- Description: former district of the canton of Bern
- Also known as: “Amtsbezirk Saanen” and “CH0843”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saanen railway station and Gstaad railway station.
Tower with Amtshaus
Historic house
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY 3.0.
Tower with Amtshaus is a historic house.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gstaad and Saanen.
Gstaad
Photo: Patrick Nouhailler’s…, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gstaad is a mountain resort in the Bernese Highlands in Switzerland. The village is at 1050 m altitude, with local skiing only up to 2200 m, but it's linked by ski-lift to the higher areas of Les Diablerets.
Saanen
Village
Photo: Alps, Public domain.
Saanen is a municipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is the capital of the Obersimmental-Saanen administrative district.
Rougemont
Village
Photo: Leemburg-CH, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rougemont is a municipality in the Pays-d'Enhaut of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Rougemont is situated 6 km west of Saanen District.
Saanen District
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Satellite Map
Discover Saanen District from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Vietnamese—“Saanen District” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “districte de Saanen”
- Catalan: “Districte de Saanen”
- Cebuano: “Saanen”
- Chinese: “Saanen Koān”
- Chuvash: “Занен”
- Dutch: “Bezirk Saanen”
- Dutch: “district Saanen”
- Dutch: “Saanen”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Saanen”
- Esperanto: “Saanen”
- French: “district de Gessenay”
- French: “District de Gessenay”
- French: “District De Saanen”
- German: “Amt Saanen”
- German: “Amtsbezirk Saanen”
- German: “Bezirk Saanen”
- Italian: “distretto di Saanen”
- Italian: “Distretto di Saanen”
- Italian: “Saanen”
- Latin: “Saanen”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Saanen Koān”
- Russian: “Заанен”
- Russian: “Занен”
- Slovenian: “Amtsbezirk Saanen”
- Slovenian: “Upravni okraj Saanen”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Saanen”
- Swedish: “Saanen”
- Swiss German: “Bezirk Saane”
- Tosk Albanian: “Bezirk Saanen”
- Urdu: “سنیں ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Saanen”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Alpina Gstaad and Gstaad Palace.
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