Brig
Brig, officially Brig-Glis, is a municipality of 13,000 people in Valais in Switzerland. The municipality is made up of two neighbouring towns, Brig and Glis, with a third independent town Naters across the Rhone river to the north.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 13,100 residents
- Description: municipality in the district of Brig, Canton of Valais, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Brig-Glis”, “Brig-Glis VS”, “Brig, Switzerland”, and “CH6002”
Photo: Rudolf4310, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brig railway station and Brig Bahnhofplatz railway station.
Brig railway station
Railway station
Brig railway station is an important railway junction in the municipality of Brig-Glis, in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland. Opened in 1878, it is adjacent to the northern portal of the Simplon Tunnel and is served by two standard gauge lines.
Brig Bahnhofplatz railway station
Railway station
Photo: Photnart, Public domain.
Brig Bahnhofplatz railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Brig-Glis, in the Swiss canton of Valais. It is the meeting point of two 1,000 mm metre gauge railway lines of the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn, the BVZ Zermatt-Bahn and the Furka Oberalp Railway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Naters and Brig.
Naters
Village
Photo: Summi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Naters is a municipality in the district of Brig in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Birgisch and Mund merged into the municipality of Naters, which also includes the villages of Hegdorn, Geimen, Mehlbaum, Rischinen and Blatten bei Naters.
Brig
Town
Photo: Espandero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brig, known as Brig in German and Briga in Italian, is a town and former municipality in the canton of Valais. It is part of the municipality of Brig-Glis.
Mund
Village
Mund is a former municipality in the district of Brig in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Mund and Birgisch merged into the municipality of Naters.
Brig
- Category: Municipality of Switzerland
- Location: Brig District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Brig” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Brig-Glis”
- Arabic: “بريغ غيلس”
- Armenian: “Բրիգ Գլիս”
- Armenian: “Բրիգ”
- Arpitan: “Brega-Egllésa”
- Arpitan: “Brega-Egllése”
- Azerbaijani: “Briq-Qlis”
- Basque: “Brig-Glis”
- Belarusian: “Брыг-Гліс”
- Belarusian: “Брыг”
- Breton: “Brig-Glis”
- Bulgarian: “Бриг-Глис”
- Catalan: “Brig-Glis”
- Cebuano: “Brig-Glis”
- Chinese: “Brig-Glis”
- Chinese: “布里格-格利斯”
- Czech: “Brig-Glis”
- Czech: “Brig”
- Danish: “Brig-Glis”
- Dutch: “Brig-Glis”
- Esperanto: “Brig-Glis”
- Finnish: “Brig”
- French: “Brigue-Glis”
- Galician: “Brig-Glis”
- Georgian: “ბრიგი (შვეიცარია)”
- Georgian: “ბრიგი”
- German: “Brig-Glis”
- Hebrew: “בריג-גליס”
- Hungarian: “Brig-Glis”
- Icelandic: “Brig”
- Irish: “Brig-Glis”
- Italian: “Briga-Glis”
- Japanese: “ブリーク”
- Korean: “브리크”
- Korean: “브리크글리스”
- Kurdish: “Brig, Swîsre”
- Latin: “Briga-Glisa”
- Lithuanian: “Brigas”
- Lombard: “Brig-Glis”
- Luxembourgish: “Brig-Glis”
- Macedonian: “Бриг-Глис”
- Malay: “Brig-Glis”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Brig-Glis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brig-Glis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brig-Glis”
- Norwegian: “Brig-Glis”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Brig-Glis”
- Persian: “بریگ، سوئیس”
- Piemontese: “Brig-Glis”
- Piemontese: “Briga-Glis”
- Polish: “Brig-Glis”
- Polish: “Brig”
- Portuguese: “Briga-Glis”
- Romanian: “Brig-Glis”
- Romansh: “Brig-Glis”
- Russian: “Бриг”
- Serbian: “Бриг-Глис”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Brig-Glis”
- Silesian: “Brig”
- South Azerbaijani: “بریگ، سوئیس”
- Spanish: “Brig-Glis”
- Spanish: “Brig”
- Swedish: “Brig-Glis”
- Swiss German: “Brig-Glis”
- Tosk Albanian: “Brig-Glis”
- Turkish: “Brig-Glis”
- Ukrainian: “Бриг (Швейцарія)”
- Ukrainian: “Бріг”
- Upper Sorbian: “Brig-Glis”
- Venetian: “Briga-Glis”
- Volapük: “Brig-Glis”
- Waray (Philippines): “Brig, Swiza”
- Waray (Philippines): “Brig”
- Welsh: “Brig-Glis”
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