Frutigen
Frutigen is a town of 6,900 people in the Swiss Canton of Berne and the site of the northern portal of the Lötschberg-Base-Tunnel that opened for railway traffic in 2007.- Type: Village with 6,660 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Frutenges”, “Frutigen (munisipyo)”, “Frutigen BE”, “Hasli”, “Innerschwandi”, “Kanderbrück”, “Ladholz”, “Oberfeld-Prasten”, “Reinisch”, and “Winklen”
- Postal code: 3714
- Neighbors: Kandersteg
Places of Interest
Highlights: Frutigen railway station and Tellenburg Castle.
Frutigen railway station
Railway station
Frutigen is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Bern and municipality of Frutigen.
Frutigen
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Frutigen-Niedersimmental, Canton of Bern, Bernese Highlands, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.5874° or 46° 35′ 15″ north
Longitude
7.6444° or 7° 38′ 40″ east
Population
6,660
Elevation
786 metres (2,579 feet)
UN/LOCODE
CH FTN
Open location code
8FR9HJPV+XQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Frutigen” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Frutigen”
- Basque: “Frutigen”
- Belarusian: “Фрутыген”
- Breton: “Frutigen”
- Catalan: “Frutigen”
- Cebuano: “Frutigen (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Frutigen”
- Chinese: “弗魯蒂根”
- Chinese: “弗鲁蒂根”
- Chuvash: “Фрутиген”
- Czech: “Frutigen”
- Dutch: “Frutigen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فروتيجين”
- Esperanto: “Frutigen”
- Finnish: “Frutigen”
- French: “Frutigen”
- German: “Frutigen”
- Hungarian: “Frutigen”
- Irish: “Frutigen”
- Italian: “Frutigen”
- Japanese: “フルティゲン”
- Kazakh: “Фрутиген”
- Korean: “프루티겐”
- Lombard: “Frutigen”
- Malay: “Frutigen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Frutigen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Frutigen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Frutigen”
- Persian: “فروتیگن”
- Piemontese: “Frutigen”
- Polish: “Frutigen”
- Portuguese: “Frutigen”
- Russian: “Фрутиген”
- Silesian: “Frutigen”
- Spanish: “Frutigen”
- Swedish: “Frutigen”
- Swiss German: “Frutige”
- Swiss German: “Frutigen”
- Turkish: “Frutigen”
- Ukrainian: “Фрутіген”
- Upper Sorbian: “Frutigen”
- Uzbek: “Frutigen”
- Venetian: “Frutigen”
- Volapük: “Frutigen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Frutigen”
- Welsh: “Frutigen”
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