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Bernese Highlands

The southern end of canton Berne includes some of the tallest and most famous peaks in including the Jungfrau and the Eiger, known as the Berner Oberland.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Thun and Interlaken.

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is a small city in the Bernese Highlands of Bern Canton, . Its surface area is 21.7 km², and it had about 44,000 inhabitants in 2017.

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is a small city in the Bernese Highlands region of central . Located between two alpine lakes, is a popular base camp for outdoor sports and travel in the surrounding Bernese Oberland Alps.

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is a village in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, with a population of 2290 in 2018. It lies in a dramatic sheer-sided U-shaped valley, with scores of waterfalls - its name means "clear springs" but is often rendered as "loud springs" for their roar in spate.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Grindelwald and Gstaad.

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is a mountain village in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland. It's in the valley from Interlaken up to the pass of Grosse Scheidegg, a traditional cattle trail, and in Old High German grintil walt meant "barrier forest".

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is a mountain resort in the Bernese Highlands in Switzerland. The village is at 1050 m altitude, with local skiing only up to 2200 m, but it's linked by ski-lift to the higher areas of .

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is a town in the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland. with a population in 2020 of 4666. It's a winter sports and mountain hiking resort, best known for the Reichenbach Falls, scene of the fictional death of Sherlock Holmes and his arch-enemy Professor Moriarty.

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is a town and municipality on the shore of in the Bernese Oberland region of the . It is part of the .

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is located in the Bernese Oberland area of at the opposite end of Brienzersee to Interlaken. It is a small village with approximately 3000 inhabitants. is famous as the Swiss centre for woodcarving.

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is an Alpine resort in the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland. It's at 1,274 m above sea level, reached by cog railway and with no vehicle access, on the route up towards the Eiger and Jungfrau.

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is a village in the Bernese Highlands in . Located in the heart of the Alps, is the perfect location to explore the mountains and observe the traditional Swiss alpine lifestyle and it is also on the edge of the UNESCO world heritage site.

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is a town of 6,900 people in the Canton of Berne and the site of the northern portal of the Lötschberg-Base-Tunnel that opened for railway traffic in 2007.

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is a mountain village in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, with a resident population of 155 but hundreds of seasonal workers and 2000 hotel guests.

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is a tiny resort in the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland. At 2061 m it stands at the top of a pass between the Lauberhorn ridge and the dizzy peaks of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau, and "Scheidegg" means a watershed.

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is a picturesque hamlet in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland. It's perched on a cliff edge looking down into the Weisse Lütschine valley towards , and in 2020 had a population of 130.

Bernese Highlands

Latitude of center
46.6703° or 46° 40′ 13″ north
Longitude of center
7.8347° or 7° 50′ 5″ east
Elevation
566 metres (1,857 feet)
Geo­Names ID
6942179
Wiki­data ID
Q475403
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In Other Languages

From Aragonese to Western Armenian—“Bernese Highlands” goes by many names.
  • Aragonese: “Oberland bernés”
  • Belarusian: “Бэрнскае высакагор’е”
  • Catalan: “Oberland bernès”
  • Chinese: “伯尔尼高地”
  • Dutch: “Berner Oberland”
  • Dutch: “Bernese Oberland”
  • Esperanto: “Berna Oberlando”
  • Finnish: “Bernin Oberland”
  • French: “Oberland bernois”
  • German: “Berner Oberland”
  • Greek: “Βερνικές Άλπεις”
  • Hebrew: “הרמה הברנית”
  • Hungarian: “Berni-felvidék”
  • Italian: “Oberland bernese”
  • Italian: “Oberland Bernese”
  • Japanese: “ベルナー・オーバーラント”
  • Japanese: “ベルナー高地”
  • Japanese: “ベルン高地”
  • Korean: “베르너 오버란트”
  • Macedonian: “Бернер Оберланд”
  • Macedonian: “Бернско Горје”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Berner Oberland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Berner Oberland”
  • Norwegian: “Berner Oberland”
  • Polish: “Berner Oberland”
  • Polish: “Oberland Berneński”
  • Portuguese: “Oberland Bernês”
  • Romanian: “Berner Oberland”
  • Romansh: “Part sura bernaisa”
  • Russian: “Бернский Оберланд”
  • Slovenian: “Berner Oberland”
  • Spanish: “Oberland bernes”
  • Spanish: “Oberland bernés”
  • Spanish: “Oberland”
  • Swedish: “Berner Oberland”
  • Swiss German: “Bärner Oberland”
  • Thai: “แบร์เนอร์โอเบอร์ลันท์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Berner Oberland”
  • Turkish: “Bern Oberlandı”
  • Ukrainian: “Бернське високогір’я”
  • Venetian: “Oberland Bernese”
  • Vietnamese: “Cao nguyên Bern”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bernese Oberland”
  • Western Armenian: “Զուիցերիա”
  • Western Armenian: “Պերնիզի Ալպեան լեռներ”

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