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.
- Locality with about 13,100 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 690 metres (2,270 feet)
- Description: municipality in the district of Brig, Canton of Valais, Switzerland
- Also known as“Brig-Glis”“Brig-Glis VS”“Brig, Switzerland”“CH6002”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brig railway station and Brig Bahnhofplatz railway station.
Brig railway station
Brig railway station is an important railway junction…
Brig Bahnhofplatz railway station
Brig Bahnhofplatz railway station is a railway station…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Naters and Brig.
Naters
Naters is a municipality in the district of Brig in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Mund
Mund is a former municipality in the district of Brig in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Brig
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Latitude
46.3096° or 46° 18′ 35″ north
Longitude
7.9668° or 7° 58′ 1″ east
Open location code
8FR98X58+VP
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Brig” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Brig-Glis”
- Arabic: “بريغ غيلس”
- Aragonese: “Brig-Glis”
- 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: “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”
- Persian: “بریگ”
- 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”
- Slovenian: “Brig-Glis”
- South Azerbaijani: “بریگ، سوئیس”
- Spanish: “Brig-Glis”
- Spanish: “Brig”
- Swedish: “Brig-Glis”
- Swiss German: “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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