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 Glishorn and Spitzhorli.
Glishorn
Peak
The Glishorn is a mountain of the Pennine Alps, overlooking Brig-Glis in the canton of Valais.
Spitzhorli
Peak
The Spitzhorli is a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, located between the Nanztal and the Gantertal, south of Brig-Glis in the canton of Valais.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brig and 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.
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.
Birgisch
Village
Photo: Maurice Perry, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Birgisch is a former 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.
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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