Cham
Cham is a city in Upper Palatinate in Bavaria, Germany. Its name is pronounced quite similar to the English word "calm" and not with a German "ch" sound.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Romanist, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 17,000 residents
- Description: municipality in Oberpfalz, Germany
- Also known as: “09372116”, “Cham (Oberpfalz)”, “Cham, Germany”, and “Stadt Cham”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cham station and Klosterkirche Maria Hilf.
Cham station
Railway station
Photo: Joachim Lutz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cham station is a railway station in the municipality of Cham, located in the Cham district in Bavaria, Germany. The station is located in the Upper Palatinate administrative district.
Klosterkirche Maria Hilf
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Klosterkirche Maria Hilf is a church.
Cham
- Categories: urban municipality in Germany, district capital, and locality
- Location: Cham, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.2178° or 49° 13′ 4″ northLongitude
12.6664° or 12° 39′ 59″ eastPopulation
17,000Elevation
364 metres (1,194 feet)Open location code
8FXJ6M98+4HOpenStreetMap ID
node 30039459OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6547483Wikidata ID
Q257859
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Cham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كام”
- Aragonese: “Cham (Alemanya)”
- Aragonese: “Cham”
- Armenian: “Կամ”
- Basque: “Cham (Alemania)”
- Basque: “Cham”
- Bavarian: “Cham”
- Bulgarian: “Кам”
- Cebuano: “Cham”
- Chechen: “Кам (Лакха Пфальц)”
- Chechen: “Кам”
- Chinese: “卡姆”
- Czech: “Cham”
- Czech: “Kouba”
- Czech: “Stadt am Regenbogen”
- Danish: “Cham”
- Dutch: “Cham”
- Esperanto: “Cham”
- French: “Cham”
- German: “Cham (Oberpfalz)”
- German: “Cham”
- Hungarian: “Cham”
- Indonesian: “Cham”
- Irish: “Cham”
- Italian: “Cham”
- Japanese: “カーム”
- Japanese: “シャム”
- Korean: “캄”
- Kurdish: “Cham, Oberpfalz”
- Kurdish: “Cham”
- Ladin: “Cham”
- Latin: “Cambla”
- Latin: “Cham”
- Lombard: “Cham”
- Malay: “Cham, Jerman”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cham”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cham i Bayern”
- Norwegian: “Cham”
- Persian: “چام”
- Persian: “کام”
- Polish: “Cham”
- Portuguese: “Cham”
- Romanian: “Cham”
- Russian: “Кам”
- Serbian: “Кам”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cham”
- Slovak: “Cham”
- South Azerbaijani: “کام”
- Spanish: “Cham”
- Swedish: “Cham, Tyskland”
- Tatar: “Кам”
- Turkish: “Cham”
- Ukrainian: “Кам”
- Uzbek: “Cham”
- Vietnamese: “Cham”
- Volapük: “Cham”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cham, Alemanya”
- Western Panjabi: “کیم”
- “Cham”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Cham”. Photo: Romanist, CC BY-SA 4.0.