Chur
Chur is the capital and largest town of the Swiss canton of the Grisons and lies in the Grisonian Rhine Valley, where the Rhine turns towards the north, in the northern part of the canton.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 37,100 residents
- Description: capital of the Swiss canton of Graubünden and lies in the northern part of the canton
- Also known as: “Chur GR” and “Coire”
- Postal code: 7000
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chur railway station and Chur Cathedral.
Chur railway station
Railway station
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Chur railway station serves the town of Chur, capital of the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Opened in 1858, it is the most important railway junction in Graubünden.
Chur Cathedral
Church
Photo: Xenos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chur Cathedral, otherwise known as the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary, is the Catholic cathedral of the diocese of Chur in Switzerland. The episcopal palace of the bishop of Chur is beside the church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Haldenstein and Maladers.
Haldenstein
Village
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Haldenstein is a former municipality in the Plessur Region in the Swiss canton of Grisons. On 1 January 2021 the former municipality of Haldenstein merged into the municipality of Chur.
Maladers
Village
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maladers is a former municipality in the Plessur Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2020 the former municipality of Maladers merged into Chur.
Felsberg
Village
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Felsberg is a municipality in the Imboden Region in the Swiss canton of the Grisons. Felsberg is situated 4 km west of Chur.
Chur
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland, cantonal capital of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Plessur, Graubünden, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.8547° or 46° 51′ 17″ northLongitude
9.5265° or 9° 31′ 35″ eastPopulation
37,100Elevation
601 metres (1,972 feet)IATA airport code
ZDTUnited Nations Location Code
CH CHROpen location code
8FRFVG3G+VHOpenStreetMap ID
node 1577255384OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2661169Wikidata ID
Q69007
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Chur” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Chur”
- Albanian: “Kuri”
- Arabic: “خور”
- Arabic: “كور”
- Armenian: “Քուր (Շվեյցարիա)”
- Armenian: “Քուր”
- Arpitan: “Couère”
- Azerbaijani: “Kur”
- Basque: “Chur”
- Belarusian: “Кур”
- Bosnian: “Chur”
- Breton: “Chur”
- Bulgarian: “Кур”
- Bulgarian: “Кхур”
- Bulgarian: “Хуур”
- Catalan: “Chur (de)”
- Catalan: “Coira”
- Catalan: “Coire (fr)”
- Catalan: “Cuera (rm)”
- Catalan: “Cuira (it)”
- Cebuano: “Chur (kapital sa kanton)”
- Cebuano: “Chur”
- Chechen: “Кур”
- Chinese: “Chur”
- Chinese: “库尔”
- Chinese: “庫爾”
- Croatian: “Chur”
- Czech: “Chur”
- Danish: “Chur”
- Dutch: “Chur”
- Esperanto: “Chur”
- Esperanto: “Coira”
- Esperanto: “Coire”
- Esperanto: “Cuera”
- Esperanto: “Koiro / Kurio”
- Esperanto: “Koiro”
- Estonian: “Chur”
- Estonian: “Coira”
- Estonian: “Coire”
- Estonian: “Cuira”
- Finnish: “Chur”
- French: “Chur”
- French: “Coira”
- French: “Coire”
- Galician: “Chur”
- Galician: “Coira”
- Galician: “Coire”
- Galician: “Cuera”
- Galician: “Cuira”
- Georgian: “კური”
- German: “Chur GR”
- German: “Chur”
- German: “Coire”
- German: “Cuira”
- Greek: “Κουρ”
- Hebrew: “כור”
- Hungarian: “Chur”
- Icelandic: “Chur”
- Indonesian: “Chur”
- Irish: “Chur”
- Italian: “Chur”
- Italian: “Coira”
- Italian: “Coire”
- Japanese: “クール”
- Kazakh: “Кур”
- Korean: “쿠아르”
- Korean: “쿠어”
- Kurdish: “Chur”
- Ladin: “Cuira”
- Latin: “Curia Raetorum”
- Latvian: “Kūra”
- Lingala: “Kwar”
- Lithuanian: “Chur”
- Lithuanian: “Kūras”
- Lombard: “Chur”
- Lombard: “Coira”
- Lombard: “Còira”
- Lower Sorbian: “Chur”
- Luxembourgish: “Chur”
- Macedonian: “Кур”
- Malagasy: “Chur”
- Malay: “Chur”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chur”
- Mingrelian: “კური”
- Northern Frisian: “Chur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chur”
- Norwegian: “Chur”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Coira”
- Ossetian: “Кур”
- Persian: “شور، سوئیس”
- Piemontese: “Chur”
- Piemontese: “Coira”
- Polish: “Chur”
- Portuguese: “Chur”
- Portuguese: “Coira”
- Romanian: “Chur”
- Romanian: “Cuira”
- Romansh: “Chur”
- Romansh: “Cuera”
- Romansh: “Cuira”
- Romansh: “Cuoira”
- Russian: “Кур”
- Saterfriesisch: “Chur”
- Scots: “Chur”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ciura”
- Serbian: “Chur”
- Serbian: “Хур”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chur”
- Sicilian: “Coira”
- Silesian: “Chur”
- Slovak: “Chur”
- Slovenian: “Chur”
- South Azerbaijani: “شور، سوئیس”
- Spanish: “Chur”
- Spanish: “Coira”
- Swahili: “Chur”
- Swedish: “Chur”
- Swiss German: “Khûr”
- Tatar: “Кур (шәһәр)”
- Tatar: “Кур”
- Thai: “Chur”
- Thai: “คูร์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Chur”
- Turkish: “Chur”
- Ukrainian: “Кур”
- Upper Sorbian: “Chur”
- Urdu: “کؤر”
- Venetian: “Coira”
- Vietnamese: “Chur”
- Volapük: “Chur”
- Volapük: “Cuira”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chur”
- Welsh: “Chur”
- Western Panjabi: “چر”
- Western Panjabi: “خور”
- Wu Chinese: “库尔”
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