Fribourg
Fribourg is a city in Switzerland that is also the canton's capital and economic centre. The city was founded in 1157 by Herzog Berthold IV of Zaehringen.
- Type: Town with 37,500 residents
- Description: capital of the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Freibourg”, “Freiburg i.U.”, “Freiburg i.Ü.”, “Freiburg i.Ue.”, “Freiburg i.Üe.”, “Freiburg im Uchtland”, “Freiburg im Üchtland”, “Freiburg im Uechtland”, “Freiburg, Switzerland”, “Friboua”, “Fribourg en Nuithonie”, “Fribourg FR”, “Fribourg-en-Nuithonie”, “Fribourg, Suisse”, “Fribourg/Freiburg”, “Fribourgrad”, “Friburg in Nuechtland”, “Friburga”, “Friburgas”, “Friburgo im Uechtland”, “Friburgo im Üechtland”, “Фрайбург”, “Фрајбург”, “Фрибург”, “Фрыбург”, “פריבורג”, “פרייבורג”, “فريبورغ (سويسرا)”, “फ़्राइबर्ग”, “프라이부르크”, and “フライブルク”
- Postal code: 1700
Places of Interest
Highlights: Cathedral of St Nicholas and BCF Arena.
Cathedral of St Nicholas
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Granges-Paccot and Marly.
Marly
Village
Marly is a municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Marly is situated 3½ km south of Fribourg.
Villars-sur-Glâne
Town
Fribourg
Latitude
46.8056° or 46° 48′ 20″ north
Longitude
7.1613° or 7° 9′ 41″ east
Population
37,500
Elevation
610 metres (2,001 feet)
IATA airport code
ZHF
UN/LOCODE
CH FRB
Open location code
8FR9R546+6G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Fribourg” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Fribourg”
- Amharic: “ፍሪቡርግ”
- Arabic: “فريبور”
- Arabic: “فريبورغ”
- Aragonese: “Friburgo”
- Armenian: “Ֆրիբուր”
- Arpitan: “Fribôrg”
- Asturian: “Friburgu”
- Azerbaijani: “Fribur”
- Basque: “Freiburg”
- Basque: “Friburgo”
- Belarusian: “Фрыбур”
- Bengali: “ফ্রিবর্গ”
- Bengali: “ফ্রিবুর্গ”
- Breton: “Fribourg”
- Bulgarian: “Фрибур”
- Catalan: “Friburg”
- Cebuano: “Fribourg”
- Chechen: “Фрибур”
- Chinese: “佛立堡”
- Chinese: “弗里堡”
- Chuvash: “Фрибур”
- Corsican: “Friburgu”
- Croatian: “Fribourg”
- Czech: “Fribourg”
- Danish: “Fribourg”
- Dutch: “Fribourg”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فريبورج”
- Esperanto: “Friburgo”
- Estonian: “Fribourg”
- Finnish: “Fribourg”
- French: “Fribourg”
- Galician: “Friburgo, Suíza”
- Galician: “Friburgo”
- Georgian: “ფრიბური”
- German: “Freiburg im Üechtland”
- German: “Freiburg”
- Greek: “Φριμπούρ”
- Hausa: “Fribourg”
- Hebrew: “פריבור”
- Hindi: “फ्रिबर्ग”
- Hindi: “फ़्रिबुर”
- Hungarian: “Fribourg”
- Icelandic: “Freiburg”
- Icelandic: “Fribourg”
- Iloko: “Friburgo”
- Indonesian: “Fribourg”
- Interlingue: “Fribourg”
- Irish: “Fribourg”
- Italian: “Friborgo”
- Italian: “Friburgo”
- Japanese: “フリブール”
- Javanese: “Canton Fribourg”
- Javanese: “Fribourg”
- Kashubian: “Frébùrg/Fribourg”
- Kazakh: “Фрибур”
- Kirghiz: “Фрибур”
- Korean: “프리부르”
- Kurdish: “Fribourg”
- Latin: “Friburgum Nuithonum”
- Latin: “Friburgum”
- Latvian: “Fribūra”
- Lithuanian: “Fribūras”
- Lombard: “Friburgh”
- Luxembourgish: “Fribourg”
- Macedonian: “Фрибур”
- Malay: “Fribourg”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fribourg”
- Mingrelian: “ფრიბური”
- Neapolitan: “Friburgo”
- Northern Frisian: “Freiburg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fribourg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fribourg”
- Norwegian: “Fribourg”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Fribourg”
- Oromo: “Fribourg”
- Panjabi: “ਫ਼੍ਰੀਬਰਗ”
- Persian: “فریبور”
- Persian: “فریبورگ”
- Piemontese: “Friborgh”
- Polish: “Fryburg”
- Portuguese: “Friburgo”
- Pushto: “فریبورگ”
- Romanian: “Freiburg im Üechtland”
- Romanian: “Fribourg”
- Romansh: “Friburg”
- Russian: “Фрибур”
- Scots: “Fribourg”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fribourg”
- Serbian: “Фрибур/Фрајбург”
- Serbian: “Фрибур”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fribourg”
- Sicilian: “Friburgu”
- Slovak: “Fribourg”
- Slovenian: “Fribourg”
- Somali: “Fribourg”
- South Azerbaijani: “فریبورگ”
- Spanish: “Friburgo”
- Swahili: “Fribourg”
- Swedish: “Fribourg”
- Swiss German: “Freiburg im Üechtland”
- Swiss German: “Frybùrg im Üechtland”
- Tagalog: “Fribourg”
- Tajik: “Фрибур”
- Tatar: “Фрибур”
- Thai: “ฟรีบูร์”
- Turkish: “Fribourg”
- Ukrainian: “Фрібур”
- Upper Sorbian: “Fribourg”
- Urdu: “فریبرگ”
- Urdu: “فریبورگ”
- Uzbek: “Fribur”
- Venetian: “Friburgo (Svisara)”
- Venetian: “Friburgo”
- Vietnamese: “Fribourg”
- Volapük: “Freiburg im Üechtland”
- Volapük: “Freiburg”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fribourg”
- Welsh: “Fribourg”
- Western Panjabi: “فریبرگ”
- Wu Chinese: “弗里堡（弗里堡州）”
- Wu Chinese: “弗里堡”
- “Fribourg”
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