Canton of Fribourg
Sarine District
Chénens

Chénens

Chénens is a municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in . A French-speaking community, its earlier German name of Geiningen is no longer in common use.
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  • Type: Village with 852 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton Friboug, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Chenens”, “Chenens FR”, and “Chénens FR”
  • Postal code: 1744

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chénens railway station and Vernex I (Châtillon).

Railway station
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is a railway station in the municipality of Chénens, in the canton of . It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Lausanne–Bern line of Swiss Federal Railways.

Castle
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is a castle, which is situated 3 km east of Chénens.

Castle
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is a castle, which is situated 3 km south of Chénens.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Autigny and Lentigny.

Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in .

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in . Its German name of Cottingen has now largely fallen out of use. is situated 2½ km northeast of Chénens.

Chénens

Latitude
46.74088° or 46° 44′ 27″ north
Longitude
7.00238° or 7° 0′ 9″ east
Population
852
Elevation
699 metres (2,293 feet)
Open location code
8FR9P2R2+9X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240040847
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
8533397
Wiki­data ID
Q67079
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Chénens” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Chénens”
  • Basque: “Chénens”
  • Breton: “Chénens”
  • Catalan: “Chénens”
  • Cebuano: “Chénens”
  • Chinese: “Chénens”
  • Chinese: “謝南斯”
  • Chinese: “谢南斯”
  • Dutch: “Chenens”
  • Dutch: “Chénens”
  • Esperanto: “Chenens”
  • Esperanto: “Chénens”
  • Esperanto: “Les Essinges”
  • Esperanto: “Moulin de Chénens”
  • French: “Chenens”
  • French: “Chénens”
  • German: “Cheineins”
  • German: “Cheineis”
  • German: “Cheinens”
  • German: “Cheneins”
  • German: “Chénens”
  • German: “Chennens”
  • German: “Cheynens”
  • German: “Chieniens”
  • German: “Chinins”
  • German: “Les Essinges”
  • Hungarian: “Chénens”
  • Irish: “Chénens”
  • Italian: “Chénens”
  • Lombard: “Chénens”
  • Malay: “Chénens”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chénens”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chénens”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chénens”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chénens”
  • Piemontese: “Chénens”
  • Polish: “Chénens”
  • Portuguese: “Chénens”
  • Romansh: “Chénens”
  • Swedish: “Chénens”
  • Swiss German: “Chénens”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Chénens”
  • Turkish: “Chénens”
  • Ukrainian: “Шенанс”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Chénens”
  • Venetian: “Chénens”
  • Vietnamese: “Chénens”
  • Volapük: “Chénens”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chénens”
  • Welsh: “Chénens”

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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 “Chénens”. Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.