Thun
Thun District in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland was created on 1 January 2010. It is part of the Oberland administrative region. It contains 31 municipalities with an area of 321.90 km2 and a population of 103,233.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: district in Switzerland with 105,000 residents
- Description: administrative district of the canton of Bern, Switzerland (Verwaltungskreis)
- Also known as: “Thun administrative district” and “Verwaltungskreis Thun”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thun Castle and Stockhorn Arena.
Thun Castle
Thun Castle is a castle in the city of Thun, in the Swiss canton of Bern. It was built in the 12th century, today houses the Thun Castle museum, and is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Stockhorn Arena
Stadium
Photo: Gidoca, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stockhorn Arena is a football stadium in the city of Thun, Switzerland. It has a capacity of 10,000 spectators and opened in 2011. It is the home of FC Thun men and women's team of the Swiss Super League.
Thun railway station
Railway station
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Thun is a railway station in the town of Thun, in the Swiss canton of Bern. At the station, the Swiss Federal Railways owned Bern to Thun main line makes a junction with the other lines, all owned by the BLS AG.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thun and Steffisburg.
Thun
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Thun is a small city in the Bernese Highlands of Bern Canton, Switzerland. Its surface area is 21.7 km², and it had about 44,000 inhabitants in 2017.
Steffisburg
Town
Photo: Clark park, Public domain.
Steffisburg is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2020 the former municipality of Schwendibach merged into the municipality of Steffisburg.
Heimberg
Village
Heimberg is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Thun
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Thun” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة ثون”
- Basque: “Thun barruti administratiboa”
- Belarusian: “Тун”
- Catalan: “Districte administratiu de Thun”
- Cebuano: “Thun District”
- Chinese: “图恩区”
- Chinese: “圖恩區”
- Czech: “Okres Thun”
- Czech: “Thun”
- Dutch: “Thun”
- Esperanto: “administra distrikto Thun”
- Esperanto: “Thun”
- French: “arrondissement administratif de Thoune”
- French: “Arrondissement administratif de Thoune”
- German: “Thun”
- German: “Verwaltungskreis Thun”
- Italian: “Circondario di Thun”
- Japanese: “トゥーン区”
- Korean: “베르발퉁슈크라이스 툰”
- Korean: “툰구”
- Latin: “Timium”
- Lombard: “Thun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Verwaltungskreis Thun”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Distriktet Thun”
- Polish: “Thun (okręg)”
- Polish: “Thun”
- Portuguese: “Distrito administrativo de Thun”
- Portuguese: “Thun”
- Romansh: “Circul administrativ da Thun”
- Russian: “Тун”
- Russian: “Тюн”
- Slovenian: “Thun”
- Slovenian: “Upravno okrožje Thun”
- Slovenian: “Verwaltungskreis Thun”
- Spanish: “Distrito administrativo de Thun”
- Swedish: “Thun District”
- Swedish: “Thun”
- Swiss German: “Verwautigskreis Thun”
- Tosk Albanian: “Verwaltungskreis Thun”
- Ukrainian: “Тун”
- Venetian: “Çircondario de Thun”
- Waray (Philippines): “Thun”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Spital STS AG, Spital Thun and Hotel Freienhof (1956–1958).
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