Silenen

Silenen is a municipality in the canton of in . Silenen has an elevation of 1,303 metres.
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  • Type: Village with 2,160 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Uri, Switzerland
  • Also known as: CH1216” and “Silenen UR
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Zwing Uri Castle and Erstfeld railway station.

Castle
Zwing Uri is a ruined medieval castle north of Amsteg, today in the territory of the municipality of Silenen in the canton of in . It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is a railway station in the and . The station is situated on the original line of the Gotthard railway, at the foot of the ramp up to the Gotthard Tunnel. is situated 3½ km northwest of Silenen.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Erstfeld and Amsteg.

Village
is a municipality in the canton of in . is situated 3½ km northwest of Silenen.

Village
Photo: Kecko, CC BY 2.0.
is a village.

Hamlet
is a hamlet, which is situated 4 km southwest of Silenen.

Silenen

Latitude
46.7921° or 46° 47′ 32″ north
Longitude
8.6695° or 8° 40′ 10″ east
Population
2,160
Elevation
1,303 metres (4,275 feet)
Open location code
8FRCQMR9+VR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240080303
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
7287171
Wiki­data ID
Q69135
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Silenen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Silenen
  • Albanian: Silenen
  • Aragonese: Silenen
  • Arpitan: Silenen
  • Asturian: Silenen
  • Basque: Silenen
  • Bavarian: Silenen
  • Breton: Silenen
  • Catalan: Silenen
  • Cebuano: Silenen (munisipyo)
  • Cebuano: Silenen
  • Chinese: 錫列能
  • Chinese: 锡伦嫩
  • Chuvash: Зиленен
  • Corsican: Silenen
  • Croatian: Silenen
  • Czech: Silenen
  • Danish: Silenen
  • Dutch: Silenen
  • Egyptian Arabic: سيلينين
  • Esperanto: Amsteg
  • Esperanto: Bristen
  • Esperanto: Silenen UR
  • Esperanto: Silenen
  • Estonian: Silenen
  • Finnish: Silenen
  • French: Silenen
  • Friulian: Silenen
  • Galician: Silenen
  • German: Amsteg
  • German: Frentschenberg
  • German: Silenen UR
  • German: Silenen
  • Hungarian: Silenen
  • Icelandic: Silenen
  • Ido: Silenen
  • Indonesian: Silenen
  • Interlingua: Silenen
  • Interlingue: Silenen
  • Irish: Silenen
  • Italian: Amsteg
  • Italian: Bristen
  • Italian: Silenen
  • Kazakh: Зиленен
  • Kongo: Silenen
  • Ligurian: Silenen
  • Limburgan: Silenen
  • Lombard: Silenen
  • Low German: Silenen
  • Luxembourgish: Silenen
  • Malagasy: Silenen
  • Malay: Silenen
  • Minangkabau: Silenen
  • Narom: Silenen
  • Neapolitan: Silenen
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Silenen
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Silenen
  • Occitan (post 1500): Silenen
  • Picard: Silenen
  • Piemontese: Silenen
  • Polish: Silenen
  • Portuguese: Silenen
  • Romanian: Silenen
  • Romansh: Silenen
  • Romansh: Val Silauna
  • Russian: Зиленен
  • Sardinian: Silenen
  • Scots: Silenen
  • Scottish Gaelic: Silenen
  • Serbian: Silenen
  • Sicilian: Silenen
  • Slovak: Silenen
  • Slovenian: Silenen
  • Spanish: Silenen
  • Swahili: Silenen
  • Swedish: Silenen
  • Swiss German: Silene
  • Swiss German: Silenen UR
  • Tosk Albanian: Silenen UR
  • Turkish: Silenen
  • Ukrainian: Зіленен
  • Upper Sorbian: Silenen
  • Uzbek: Silenen
  • Uzbek: Zilenen
  • Venetian: Silenen
  • Vietnamese: Silenen
  • Vlaams: Silenen
  • Volapük: Silenen
  • Walloon: Silenen
  • Waray (Philippines): Silenen
  • Welsh: Silenen
  • Wolof: Silenen
  • Zulu: Silenen

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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 “Silenen”. Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.