Bernese Highlands
The southern end of the canton of Bern, includes some of the tallest and most famous peaks in Switzerland, including the Jungfrau and the Eiger, known as the Berner Oberland.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Thun and Interlaken.
Thun
Thun is a small city in the Bernese Highlands of Bern Canton, Switzerland.
Interlaken
Interlaken is a small city in the Bernese Highlands region of central Switzerland.
Grindelwald
Grindelwald is a mountain village in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland.
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Meiringen
Meiringen is a town in the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland. with a population in 2020 of 4666.
Kleine Scheidegg
Kleine Scheidegg is a tiny resort in the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland.
Gimmelwald
Gimmelwald is a picturesque hamlet in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland.
Bernese Highlands
- Area
- Description: higher part of the canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Also known as“Berner Oberland”“Bernese Oberland”
- Category: region
- Location
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Latitude of center
46.6703° or 46° 40′ 13″ north
Longitude of center
7.8347° or 7° 50′ 5″ east
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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”
- 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 bernés”
- Spanish: “Oberland”
- Swedish: “Berner Oberland”
- Swiss German: “Bärner Oberland”
- Swiss German: “Berner Oberland”
- Thai: “แบร์เนอร์โอเบอร์ลันท์”
- 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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