Bern

Although Bern is the seat of most of the institutions of the Confederation, the remarkable design coherence of Bern's old town has earned it a place on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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  • Type: City with 129,000 residents
  • Description: city in Switzerland, capital of the canton of Bern and de facto capital of Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Bärn”, “Bêrna”, “Berna.”, “Berne”, “cidade de Berna”, “city of Bern”, “orașul Berna”, “Берно швайцарске”, “بیرن”, “बर्न नगर”, “बर्न शहर”, “बर्न सिटी”, “बर्न, स्विट्जरलैंड”, “বার্ণ”, “பெர்ன்”, “பேர்ண்”, “ベルヌ”, and “伯爾尼”
  • Postal codes: 3000, 3004-3008, 3010-3015, 3018-3020, and 3027

Places of Interest

Highlights: Stadion Wankdorf and Federal Palace - House of Parliament.

Stadium
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Wankdorf Stadium is a football stadium in Bern, Switzerland.

Government building
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The Federal Palace is a building in Bern housing the Swiss Federal Assembly and the Federal Council.

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The Zytglogge is a landmark medieval in Bern, Switzerland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ostermundigen and Muri bei Bern.

Town
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Town
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Suburb
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Wabern, or , is a village in the municipality of Köniz in the .

Bern

Latitude
46.9485° or 46° 56′ 55″ north
Longitude
7.4522° or 7° 27′ 8″ east
Population
129,000
Elevation
549 metres (1,801 feet)
IATA airport code
BRN
UN/LOCODE
CH BRN
Open location code
8FR9WFX2+9V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 18477455
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2661552
Wiki­data ID
Q70
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Bern” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Bern”
  • Afrikaans: “Bern”
  • Albanian: “Bern”
  • Albanian: “Berna”
  • Amharic: “ቤርን”
  • Arabic: “برن”
  • Aragonese: “Berna”
  • Armenian: “Բեռն”
  • Arpitan: “Bèrna”
  • Asturian: “Berna”
  • Avaric: “Берн”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bern”
  • Balinese: “Bern”
  • Bashkir: “Берн”
  • Basque: “Berna”
  • Belarusian: “Берн”
  • Belarusian: “Бэрн”
  • Bengali: “বের্ন”
  • Betawi: “Bèren”
  • Bhojpuri: “बर्न”
  • Bosnian: “Bern”
  • Breton: “Bern”
  • Bulgarian: “Берн”
  • Catalan: “Berna”
  • Cebuano: “Bern”
  • Cebuano: “Berna”
  • Central Bikol: “Bern”
  • Central Kurdish: “بێرن”
  • Chavacano: “Berna”
  • Chechen: “Берн”
  • Chinese: “伯尔尼 / 伯恩 / 伯爾尼”
  • Chinese: “伯尔尼”
  • Chinese: “伯恩”
  • Church Slavic: “Бєрнъ”
  • Chuvash: “Берн”
  • Cornish: “Bern”
  • Corsican: “Berna”
  • Croatian: “Bern”
  • Czech: “Bern”
  • Danish: “Bern”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bern”
  • Dotyali: “बर्न”
  • Dutch: “Bern”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيرن”
  • Erzya: “Берн ош”
  • Esperanto: “Berno”
  • Estonian: “Bern”
  • Extremaduran: “Berna”
  • Faroese: “Bern”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bern”
  • Finnish: “Bern”
  • French: “Berne”
  • Friulian: “Berna”
  • Friulian: “Berne”
  • Galician: “Berna”
  • Georgian: “ბერნი”
  • German: “Bern”
  • German: “Bundesstadt”
  • German: “Stadt Bern”
  • Gilaki: “برن”
  • Greek: “Βέρνη”
  • Gujarati: “બર્ન”
  • Haitian: “Bèn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bern”
  • Hawaiian: “Berne”
  • Hebrew: “ברן”
  • Hindi: “अथर्ववेद”
  • Hindi: “बर्न”
  • Hungarian: “Bern”
  • Icelandic: “Bern”
  • Ido: “Bern”
  • Iloko: “Berna”
  • Inari Sami: “Bern”
  • Indonesian: “Bern”
  • Interlingua: “Berna”
  • Interlingue: “Bern”
  • Irish: “Beirn”
  • Italian: “Berna”
  • Japanese: “ベルン”
  • Javanese: “Bern”
  • Kabyle: “Bern”
  • Kannada: “ಬರ್ನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬೇರ್ನ್”
  • Kashubian: “Berno”
  • Kazakh: “Берн”
  • Kirghiz: “Берн”
  • Korean: “베른”
  • Kotava: “Bern”
  • Kurdish: “Bern”
  • Ladin: “Bern”
  • Ladin: “Berna”
  • Ladino: “Berna”
  • Latin: “Berna”
  • Latvian: “Berne”
  • Ligurian: “Berna”
  • Lingala: “Bern”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Bern”
  • Literary Chinese: “伯恩”
  • Lithuanian: “Bernas”
  • Livvi: “Bern”
  • Lombard: “Berna”
  • Low German: “Bern”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Bern”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bern”
  • Macedonian: “Берн”
  • Magahi: “बर्न”
  • Malagasy: “Berna”
  • Malay: “Bern”
  • Malayalam: “ബേൺ”
  • Maltese: “Bern”
  • Manx: “Bern”
  • Manx: “Berne”
  • Maori: “Bern”
  • Maori: “Pēna”
  • Marathi: “बर्न”
  • Mazanderani: “برن (شهر)”
  • Mazanderani: “برن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bern”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bern”
  • Minangkabau: “Bern”
  • Mingrelian: “ბერნი”
  • Moksha: “Бэрн”
  • Mongolian: “Берн”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بيرن”
  • Nauru: “Bern”
  • Navajo: “Nashkaadii Bighan”
  • Neapolitan: “Berna”
  • Nepali: “बर्न”
  • Nepali: “बेर्न”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bern”
  • Northern Luri: “برن”
  • Northern Sami: “Bern”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bern”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bern”
  • Norwegian: “Bern”
  • Novial: “Bern”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bèrna”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܪܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bern”
  • Oriya: “ବର୍ନ”
  • Ossetian: “Берн”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਰਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Berna”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Bann, Schweiz”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Bann”
  • Persian: “برن”
  • Piemontese: “Berna”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Bern”
  • Polish: “Berno”
  • Portuguese: “Berna”
  • Pushto: “برن”
  • Quechua: “Bern”
  • Romanian: “Berna”
  • Romansh: “Berna”
  • Rundi: “Bern”
  • Russian: “Берн”
  • Rusyn: “Берн”
  • Sakizaya: “Pow-al-ni”
  • Sardinian: “Berna”
  • Scots: “Bern”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Berne”
  • Serbian: “Берн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bern”
  • Shona: “Bern”
  • Sicilian: “Berna”
  • Silesian: “Bern”
  • Sindhi: “برن”
  • Sinhala: “බර්න්”
  • Slovak: “Bern”
  • Slovenian: “Bern”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برن”
  • Spanish: “Berna”
  • Swahili: “Bern”
  • Swedish: “Bern”
  • Swiss German: “Bern”
  • Swiss German: “Stadt Bärn”
  • Tagalog: “Bern”
  • Tagalog: “Berna”
  • Tajik: “Берн”
  • Talysh: “Bern”
  • Tamil: “பேர்ன்”
  • Tatar: “Берн”
  • Telugu: “బెర్న్”
  • Thai: “เบิร์น”
  • Thai: “แบร์น”
  • Tibetan: “པེར་ནེ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Berne”
  • Turkish: “Bern”
  • Turkmen: “Bern”
  • Udmurt: “Берн”
  • Uighur: “بېرن”
  • Ukrainian: “Берн”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bern”
  • Urdu: “برن”
  • Uzbek: “Bern”
  • Venetian: “Berna”
  • Veps: “Bern”
  • Vietnamese: “Bern”
  • Vietnamese: “Berne”
  • Vlaams: “Bern”
  • Volapük: “Bern”
  • Võro: “Bern”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bern”
  • Welsh: “Bern”
  • Western Armenian: “Պեռն”
  • Western Frisian: “Bern”
  • Western Panjabi: “برن”
  • Wolof: “Bern”
  • Wu Chinese: “伯尔尼”
  • Wu Chinese: “办合纳”
  • Yakut: “Берн”
  • Yiddish: “בערן”
  • Yoruba: “Berne”
  • Yue Chinese: “伯恩”
  • Zulu: “i-Bern”
  • “Bern”
  • “Berna”
  • “ma tomo Pen”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Old City and Green Quarter.

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