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.
- Type: Town with 37,100 residents
- Description: capital of the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Chur (de)”, “Chur GR”, “Còira”, “Coire (fr)”, “Cuera (rm)”, “Cuira (it)”, “Cuoira”, “Kuri”, “Кхур”, “Хуур”, “क्वार”, and “쿠아르”
- Postal code: 7000
Places of Interest
Highlights: Chur Cathedral and Chur railway station.
Chur Cathedral
Church
Chur railway station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Haldenstein and Maladers.
Haldenstein
Village
Maladers
Village
Felsberg
Village
Chur
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland, cantonal capital of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Plessur, Graubünden, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.8547° or 46° 51′ 17″ north
Longitude
9.5265° or 9° 31′ 35″ east
Population
37,100
Elevation
601 metres (1,972 feet)
IATA airport code
ZDT
UN/LOCODE
CH CHR
Open location code
8FRFVG3G+VH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Chur” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Chur”
- Amharic: “ቹር”
- Arabic: “خور”
- Arabic: “كور”
- Aragonese: “Coira”
- Armenian: “Քուր (Շվեյցարիա)”
- Armenian: “Քուր”
- Arpitan: “Couère”
- Azerbaijani: “Kur”
- Basque: “Chur”
- Belarusian: “Кур”
- Bengali: “চুর”
- Bosnian: “Chur”
- Breton: “Chur”
- Bulgarian: “Кур”
- Catalan: “Coira”
- Cebuano: “Chur (kapital sa kanton)”
- Cebuano: “Chur”
- Chechen: “Кур”
- Chinese: “库尔”
- Chinese: “庫爾”
- Croatian: “Chur”
- Czech: “Chur”
- Danish: “Chur”
- Dutch: “Chur”
- Esperanto: “Koiro / Kurio”
- Esperanto: “Koiro”
- Estonian: “Chur”
- Finnish: “Chur”
- French: “Coire”
- Galician: “Coira”
- Georgian: “კური”
- German: “Chur”
- Greek: “Κουρ”
- Hausa: “Chur”
- Hebrew: “כור”
- Hindi: “कूर”
- Hindi: “चुर”
- Hungarian: “Chur”
- Icelandic: “Chur”
- Indonesian: “Chur”
- Irish: “Chur”
- Italian: “Coira”
- Japanese: “クール”
- Javanese: “Chur”
- Kazakh: “Кур”
- Kirghiz: “Кур”
- Korean: “쿠어”
- Kurdish: “Chur”
- Ladin: “Cuira”
- Latin: “Curia Raetorum”
- Latvian: “Kūra”
- Lingala: “Kwar”
- Lithuanian: “Kūras”
- Lombard: “Coira”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Chur”
- Ossetian: “Кур”
- Panjabi: “ਚੂਰ”
- Persian: “شور، سوئیس”
- Persian: “شور”
- Piemontese: “Chur”
- Polish: “Chur”
- Portuguese: “Coira”
- Pushto: “کور”
- Romanian: “Chur”
- Romanian: “Cuira”
- Romansh: “Cuera”
- Romansh: “Cuira”
- Russian: “Кур”
- Saterfriesisch: “Chur”
- Scots: “Chur”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ciura”
- Serbian: “Хур”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chur”
- Sicilian: “Coira”
- Silesian: “Chur”
- Slovak: “Chur”
- Slovenian: “Chur”
- Somali: “Chur”
- South Azerbaijani: “شور، سوئیس”
- Spanish: “Coira”
- Swahili: “Chur”
- Swedish: “Chur”
- Swiss German: “Chur”
- Swiss German: “Khûr”
- Tajik: “Кур”
- Tatar: “Кур (шәһәр)”
- Tatar: “Кур”
- Thai: “คูร์”
- Tumbuka: “Chur”
- Turkish: “Chur”
- Ukrainian: “Кур”
- Upper Sorbian: “Chur”
- Urdu: “کؤر”
- Uzbek: “Kur”
- Venetian: “Coira”
- Vietnamese: “Chur”
- Volapük: “Chur”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chur”
- Welsh: “Chur”
- Western Panjabi: “چر”
- Wu Chinese: “库尔”
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