Biel
Biel/Bienne is the 10th largest city of Switzerland and is located on the northern edge of the canton of Berne. Famous for watchmaking, and home to Rolex, Omega and Swatch among other famous makers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town 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 New Museum Biel and Municipal Library.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nidau and Evilard.
Nidau
Village
Photo: Astrochim, Public domain.
Nidau is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Evilard
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Evilard/Leubringen is a bilingual municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district of the canton of Bern, Switzerland. The French name of the municipality is Evilard and the German name is Leubringen.
Brügg
Village
Photo: Chriusha, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brügg is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Biel
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Biel/Bienne, Canton of Bern, Berne Region, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.1402° or 47° 8′ 25″ northLongitude
7.2439° or 7° 14′ 38″ eastPopulation
56,400Elevation
434 metres (1,424 feet)IATA airport code
ZDKUnited Nations Location Code
CH BIEOpen location code
8FV946RV+3HOpenStreetMap ID
node 240097197OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2661513Wikidata ID
Q1034
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Satellite Map
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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”
- 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: “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”
- 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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