Bernese Highlands
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Kandersteg

Kandersteg is a village in the in . Located in the heart of the Alps, Kandersteg is the perfect location to explore the mountains and observe the traditional Swiss alpine lifestyle and it is also on the edge of the UNESCO world heritage site.
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  • Type: Village with 1,140 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Kandersteg BE”
  • Postal code: 3718
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kandersteg railway station and Kloster Dhammapala.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kandersteg is a railway station in the and municipality of Kandersteg. The station is located on the Lötschberg line of the BLS AG, and is the first station to the north of the Lötschberg tunnel.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Felix1, Public domain.
is a Buddhist temple.

Church
Photo: UCaetano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mitholz.

Hamlet
Photo: Draemmli, CC BY-SA 4.0.
or Blausee-Mitholz is a village in municipality in the canton of Bern in , with 170 inhabitants as of 2020. Blausee-Mitholz is a station on the Lötschberg railway line.

Kandersteg

Latitude
46.4976° or 46° 29′ 51″ north
Longitude
7.6757° or 7° 40′ 32″ east
Population
1,140
Elevation
1,172 metres (3,845 feet)
IATA airport code
ZHR
United Nations Location Code
CH KAN
Open location code
8FR9FMXG+27
Open­Street­Map ID
node 18478561
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2660191
Wiki­data ID
Q66218
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Kandersteg” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kandersteg”
  • Basque: “Kandersteg”
  • Breton: “Kandersteg”
  • Catalan: “Kandersteg International Scout Centre”
  • Catalan: “Kandersteg”
  • Cebuano: “Kandersteg (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Kandersteg”
  • Chinese: “坎德斯泰格”
  • Chinese: “坎德施泰格”
  • Chuvash: “Кандерштег”
  • Czech: “Kandersteg”
  • Dutch: “Kandersteg”
  • Esperanto: “Gastern”
  • Esperanto: “Kandersteg”
  • Finnish: “Kandersteg”
  • French: “Kandersteg”
  • German: “Kandersteg BE”
  • German: “Kandersteg”
  • Hebrew: “קנדרסטג”
  • Hungarian: “Kandersteg”
  • Irish: “Kandersteg”
  • Italian: “Kandersteg”
  • Japanese: “カンデルシュテーク”
  • Kazakh: “Кандерштег”
  • Korean: “칸더슈테크”
  • Latin: “Pons Kanderae”
  • Lombard: “Kandersteg”
  • Malay: “Kandersteg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kandersteg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kandersteg”
  • Norwegian: “Kandersteg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kandersteg”
  • Persian: “کاندرشتگ”
  • Piemontese: “Kandersteg”
  • Polish: “Kandersteg”
  • Portuguese: “Kandersteg”
  • Russian: “Кандерстег”
  • Russian: “Кандерштег”
  • Spanish: “Kandersteg”
  • Swedish: “Kandersteg”
  • Swiss German: “Chanderstäg”
  • Thai: “คันเดอร์ชเตค”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kandersteg”
  • Turkish: “Kandersteg”
  • Ukrainian: “Кандерштег”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kandersteg”
  • Venetian: “Kandersteg”
  • Vietnamese: “Kandersteg”
  • Volapük: “Kandersteg”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kandersteg”
  • Welsh: “Kandersteg”

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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 “Kandersteg”. Photo: Chmee2, CC BY 3.0.