Berne Region
Canton of Bern
Bern-Mittelland

Berne

Although Berne is the seat of most of the institutions of the Confederation, the remarkable design coherence of Berne'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: “Bern”, “Berna”, and “city of Bern”
  • Postal codes: 3000, 3004-3008, 3010-3015, 3018-3020, and 3027

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stadion Wankdorf and Clock Tower.

Stadium
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Wankdorf Stadium is a football stadium in Bern, Switzerland. The second largest all-seater football stadium in Switzerland, it is the home ground of BSC Young Boys. It was also one of the venues for UEFA Euro 2008 and UEFA Women's Euro 2025.

Photo: Mike Switzerland, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Zytglogge is a landmark medieval in Bern, Switzerland. Built in the early 13th century, it has served the city as a guard tower, prison, , centre of urban life and civic .

Public building
Photo: Sandstein, Public domain.
The is the national library of Switzerland. Part of the Federal Office of Culture, it is charged with collecting, cataloging and conserving information in all fields, disciplines, and media connected with Switzerland, as well as ensuring the widest possible accessibility and dissemination of such data.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ostermundigen and Muri bei Bern.

Town
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is a municipality in the in the canton of Bern in . The city is the birthplace of an actress, Ursula Andress.

Town
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is a municipality in the in the canton of Bern in .

Town
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is a statistical town and a municipality in the right on the southern border to Bern in the canton of Bern in .

Berne

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
United Nations Location Code
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—“Berne” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Bern”
  • Afrikaans: “Bern”
  • Albanian: “Bern”
  • Albanian: “Berna”
  • Amharic: “ቤርን”
  • Arabic: “برن”
  • Arabic: “بيرن”
  • Aragonese: “Berna”
  • Armenian: “Բեռն”
  • Arpitan: “Berna”
  • Arpitan: “Bèrna”
  • Arpitan: “Bêrna”
  • Asturian: “Berna”
  • Avaric: “Берн”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bern”
  • Balinese: “Bern”
  • Bashkir: “Берн”
  • Basque: “Berna”
  • Belarusian: “Берн”
  • Belarusian: “Бэрн”
  • Bengali: “বার্ণ”
  • Bengali: “বের্ন”
  • Betawi: “Bèren”
  • Bhojpuri: “बर्न शहर”
  • Bhojpuri: “बर्न सिटी”
  • Bhojpuri: “बर्न, स्विट्जरलैंड”
  • 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: “Bern”
  • Chinese: “伯尔尼 / 伯恩 / 伯爾尼”
  • Chinese: “伯尔尼”
  • Chinese: “伯恩”
  • Chinese: “伯爾尼”
  • 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: “Bern”
  • Esperanto: “Berno”
  • Estonian: “Bern”
  • Extremaduran: “Berna”
  • Faroese: “Bern”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bern”
  • Finnish: “Bern”
  • French: “Bern”
  • French: “Berne”
  • Friulian: “Berna”
  • Friulian: “Berne”
  • Galician: “Bern”
  • 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: “ベルヌ”
  • 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”
  • Malagasy: “Berna”
  • Malay: “Bern”
  • Malayalam: “ബേൺ”
  • Maltese: “Bern”
  • Manx: “Bern”
  • Manx: “Berne”
  • Maori: “Bern”
  • 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”
  • Portuguese: “Berne”
  • Portuguese: “cidade de Berna”
  • Pushto: “برن”
  • Pushto: “بیرن”
  • Quechua: “Bern”
  • Romanian: “Bern”
  • Romanian: “Berna”
  • Romanian: “orașul Berna”
  • Romansh: “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”
  • Slovenian: “Berna”
  • Slovenian: “Berne”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برن”
  • Spanish: “Bern”
  • Spanish: “Berna”
  • Swahili: “Bern”
  • Swedish: “Bern”
  • Swedish: “Berna”
  • Swedish: “Berne”
  • Swiss German: “Bern”
  • Swiss German: “Stadt Bärn”
  • Tagalog: “Bern”
  • Tagalog: “Berna”
  • Tajik: “Берн”
  • Talysh: “Bern”
  • Tamil: “பெர்ன்”
  • Tamil: “பேர்ண்”
  • Tamil: “பேர்ன்”
  • Tatar: “Берн”
  • Telugu: “బెర్న్”
  • Thai: “เบิร์น”
  • Thai: “แบร์น”
  • Tibetan: “པེར་ནེ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Berne”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bern”
  • Turkish: “Bern”
  • Turkmen: “Bern”
  • Udmurt: “Берн”
  • Uighur: “بېرن”
  • Ukrainian: “Берн”
  • Ukrainian: “Берно швайцарске”
  • 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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