Biel

Biel/Bienne is the 10th largest city of and is located on the northern edge of the canton of . Famous for watchmaking, and home to Rolex, Omega and Swatch among other famous makers.
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  • Type: City with 56,400 residents
  • Description: town and municipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Biel BE”, “Biel, Switzerland”, “Biel/Bienne”, “Biel/Bienne BE”, “Biel/Bienne, Switzerland”, “Bienne”, “Bienne BE”, and “Bienne, Switzerland”
  • Postal codes: 2500-2505 and 2510

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pasquart Kunsthaus and New Museum Biel.

Museum
Photo: MyriamThyes, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a museum.

Museum
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Library
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nidau and Evilard.

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

Village
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Evilard/Leubringen is a bilingual municipality in the of the canton of , . The French name of the municipality is and the German name is Leubringen.

Village
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is a municipality in the in the canton of in .

Biel

Latitude
47.1402° or 47° 8′ 25″ north
Longitude
7.2439° or 7° 14′ 38″ east
Population
56,400
Elevation
434 metres (1,424 feet)
IATA airport code
ZDK
United Nations Location Code
CH BIE
Open location code
8FV946RV+3H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240097197
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2661513
Wiki­data ID
Q1034
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Biel” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Arabic: “بيال/بيان”
  • Arabic: “بيال”
  • Aragonese: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Armenian: “Բիլ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bil”
  • Bashkir: “Биль (ҡала)”
  • Bashkir: “Биль”
  • Basque: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Belarusian: “Біль (Швайцарыя)”
  • Belarusian: “Біль”
  • Breton: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Bulgarian: “Бил”
  • Catalan: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Cebuano: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Chinese: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Chinese: “標”
  • Chinese: “比尔”
  • Chinese: “比尔市”
  • Chinese: “比爾”
  • Chuvash: “Биль”
  • Corsican: “Bienne”
  • Croatian: “Biel”
  • Czech: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Czech: “Biel”
  • Czech: “Bienne”
  • Danish: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Dutch: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Dutch: “Biel”
  • Dutch: “Bienne”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيال بيان”
  • Esperanto: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Esperanto: “Bielo”
  • Estonian: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Finnish: “Biel/Bienne”
  • French: “Biel”
  • French: “Biel/Bienne”
  • French: “Bienne (Suisse)”
  • French: “Bienne la Rouge”
  • French: “Bienne”
  • Galician: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Georgian: “ბილი”
  • German: “Biel (de:)”
  • German: “Biel BE”
  • German: “Biel”
  • German: “Biel/Bienne”
  • German: “Bienne (fr:)”
  • German: “Bienne”
  • Greek: “Μπιλ/Μπιέν”
  • Hebrew: “ביל/ביין”
  • Hindi: “बील/बियेन”
  • Hungarian: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Hungarian: “Biel”
  • Hungarian: “Bienne”
  • Icelandic: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Indonesian: “Biel BE”
  • Indonesian: “Biel-Bienne”
  • Indonesian: “Biel, Swiss”
  • Indonesian: “Biel/Bienne, Swiss”
  • Indonesian: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Indonesian: “Bienne”
  • Irish: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Italian: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Italian: “Bienna”
  • Italian: “Bienne”
  • Japanese: “ビール/ビエンヌ”
  • Kazakh: “Биль”
  • Korean: “빌/비엔”
  • Kurdish: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Latin: “Belna”
  • Latvian: “Bīle”
  • Latvian: “Bjēna”
  • Lithuanian: “Bylis”
  • Lombard: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Luxembourgish: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Luxembourgish: “Biel”
  • Malay: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Mingrelian: “ბილი (ნოღა)”
  • Mingrelian: “ბილი”
  • Nauru: “Biel”
  • Northern Frisian: “Biel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Norwegian: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Biel/Bienne”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bienne/Biel”
  • Ossetian: “Биль/Бьен”
  • Ossetian: “Биль”
  • Ossetian: “Бьен”
  • Persian: “بیل/بین”
  • Persian: “بیل”
  • Persian: “بین”
  • Piemontese: “Bienna”
  • Polish: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Polish: “Biel”
  • Polish: “Bienne”
  • Portuguese: “Biel”
  • Portuguese: “Bienna”
  • Romanian: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Romansh: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Romansh: “Bienna”
  • Russian: “Биль”
  • Scots: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Serbian: “Бил/Бјен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Sicilian: “Bienne”
  • Silesian: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Slovak: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Slovak: “Bienne”
  • Slovenian: “Biel/Bienne”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیل/بین”
  • Spanish: “Biel-Bienne”
  • Spanish: “Biel”
  • Spanish: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Spanish: “Biena”
  • Spanish: “Bienne”
  • Swahili: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Swedish: “Biel”
  • Swiss German: “Biu”
  • Tamil: “பியெல்/பியென்”
  • Tatar: “Бил”
  • Thai: “บีล/บีแย็น”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Turkish: “Belna”
  • Turkish: “Biel BE”
  • Turkish: “Biel-Bienne”
  • Turkish: “Biel/Bienne BE”
  • Turkish: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Turkish: “Biel”
  • Turkish: “Bienne BE”
  • Turkish: “Bienne”
  • Ukrainian: “Біль/Б’єнн”
  • Ukrainian: “Біль”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Biel/Bienne”
  • Urdu: “بیل/بیین”
  • Uzbek: “Bil (shahar)”
  • Uzbek: “Bil”
  • Venetian: “Biena”
  • Venetian: “Bienna”
  • Volapük: “Biel-Bienne”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Biel/Bienne”
  • Welsh: “Biel”
  • Wu Chinese: “比尔 (瑞士)”
  • Wu Chinese: “比尔（瑞士）”
  • Yue Chinese: “標 (瑞士)”

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