Biel
Biel/Bienne is the 10th largest city of Switzerland and is located on the northern edge of the canton of Bern. Famous for watchmaking, and home to Rolex, Omega and Swatch among other famous makers.
- Type: City with 56,400 residents
- Description: town and municipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Biel (de:)”, “Biel BE”, “Biel, Swiss”, “Biel, Switzerland”, “Biel/Bienne”, “Biel/Bienne BE”, “Biel/Bienne, Swiss”, “Biel/Bienne, Switzerland”, “Bienne (fr:)”, “Bienne (Suisse)”, “Bienne BE”, “Bienne la Rouge”, “Bienne, Switzerland”, “Bjēna”, “Биль/Бьен”, “Біль (Швайцарыя)”, “Бьен”, and “比尔市”
- Postal codes: 2500-2505 and 2510
Places of Interest
Highlights: Pasquart Kunsthaus and New Museum Biel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nidau and Evilard.
Biel
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Biel/Bienne Administrative District, Canton of Bern, Bern Region, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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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
UN/LOCODE
CH BIE
Open location code
8FV946RV+3H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Breton: “Biel/Bienne”
- Bulgarian: “Бил”
- Catalan: “Biel/Bienne”
- Cebuano: “Biel/Bienne”
- Chinese: “比尔”
- Chinese: “比爾”
- Chuvash: “Биль”
- Corsican: “Bienne”
- Croatian: “Biel”
- Czech: “Biel”
- Danish: “Biel/Bienne”
- Dutch: “Biel/Bienne”
- Dutch: “Biel”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيال بيان”
- Esperanto: “Biel/Bienne”
- Esperanto: “Bielo”
- Estonian: “Biel/Bienne”
- Finnish: “Biel/Bienne”
- French: “Biel/Bienne”
- French: “Bienne”
- Galician: “Biel/Bienne”
- Georgian: “ბილი”
- German: “Biel”
- German: “Biel/Bienne”
- Greek: “Μπιλ/Μπιέν”
- Hebrew: “ביל/ביין”
- Hindi: “बील/बियेन”
- Hungarian: “Biel/Bienne”
- Hungarian: “Biel”
- Icelandic: “Biel/Bienne”
- Indonesian: “Biel/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”
- Lithuanian: “Bylis”
- Lombard: “Biel/Bienne”
- Luxembourgish: “Biel/Bienne”
- 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”
- 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”
- Slovenian: “Biel/Bienne”
- South Azerbaijani: “بیل/بین”
- Spanish: “Biel-Bienne”
- Spanish: “Biena”
- Swahili: “Biel/Bienne”
- Swedish: “Biel”
- Swiss German: “Biel/Bienne”
- Swiss German: “Biu”
- Tamil: “பியெல்/பியென்”
- Tatar: “Бил”
- Thai: “บีล/บีแย็น”
- Turkish: “Biel/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)”
- Yue Chinese: “標”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Old Town of Bienne and Beaumont/Jutzhubel.
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