La Chaux-de-Fonds

La Chaux-de-Fonds is a city in with an impressive heritage of watch making. has been inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List as "La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning".
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  • Type: Town with 39,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Chaux de Fonds”, “La Châlx”, “La Chaŭ-de-Fonds”, “La Chaux de Fonds”, “La Chaux de-Fonds”, “La Chaux-de-Fonds (stad)”, “La Chaux-de-Fonds NE”, “La T’chaux”, “La Tchaux”, “La-Chaux-de-Fonds”, “Шо-де-Фон”, “ラ・ショー・ド・フォン”, “ラ・ショー・ドゥフォン”, and “ラショードフォン”
  • Postal code: 2300
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights: Villa Jeanneret-Perret and Villa Fallet.

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The is the first independent project by French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier.

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is a traditional chalet located…

Railway station
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serves the…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Les Éplatures.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

La Chaux-de-Fonds

Latitude
47.1031° or 47° 6′ 11″ north
Longitude
6.8326° or 6° 49′ 57″ east
Population
39,000
Elevation
995 metres (3,264 feet)
IATA airport code
ZHV
UN/LOCODE
CH LCF
Open location code
8FV84R3M+72
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240041404
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2660076
Wiki­data ID
Q68124
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“La Chaux-de-Fonds” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Arabic: “لا شو دو فون”
  • Aragonese: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Armenian: “Լա Շո դը Ֆոն”
  • Armenian: “Լե Շո դե Ֆոն”
  • Arpitan: “La Châls”
  • Azerbaijani: “La-Şo-de-Fon”
  • Balinese: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Bashkir: “Ла-Шо-де-Фон”
  • Basque: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Belarusian: “Ла-Шо-дэ-Фон”
  • Belarusian: “Ля-Шо-дэ-Фон”
  • Breton: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Bulgarian: “Ла Шо дьо Фон”
  • Catalan: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Cebuano: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Chechen: “Ла-Шо-де-Фон”
  • Chinese: “拉紹德封”
  • Chinese: “拉绍德封”
  • Chuvash: “Ла-Шо-де-Фон”
  • Croatian: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Czech: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Danish: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Dutch: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉaŭdefono”
  • Esperanto: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Extremaduran: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Finnish: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • French: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Galician: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Georgian: “ლა-შო-დე-ფონი”
  • German: “Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • German: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Greek: “Λα Σω-ντε-Φον”
  • Hebrew: “לה שו-דה-פון”
  • Hindi: “ल शो-द-फ़ों”
  • Hungarian: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Icelandic: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Ido: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Indonesian: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Interlingue: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Irish: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Italian: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Japanese: “ラ・ショー＝ド＝フォン”
  • Kashmiri: “لا چایکس-ڈی-فونڈٕس”
  • Korean: “라쇼드퐁”
  • Kurdish: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Latvian: “Lašodefona”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Lithuanian: “La Šo de Fonas”
  • Lithuanian: “Šo de Fonas”
  • Lombard: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Luxembourgish: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Macedonian: “Ла Шо де Фон”
  • Malay: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Maltese: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Norwegian: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Ossetian: “Ла-Шо-де-Фон”
  • Persian: “لشو دو فوند”
  • Piemontese: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Polish: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Portuguese: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Romanian: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Romansh: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Russian: “Ла-Шо-де-Фон”
  • Scots: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Serbian: “Шо де Фон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Sicilian: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Silesian: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Slovak: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Slovenian: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لشو دو فوند”
  • Spanish: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Swedish: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Swiss German: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Tatar: “Ла-Шо-де-Фоң”
  • Thai: “ลาโช-เดอ-ฟง”
  • Turkish: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Ukrainian: “Ла Шо-де-Фон”
  • Ukrainian: “Ла-Шо-де-Фон”
  • Upper Sorbian: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Urdu: “لا شو ڈی فونڈز”
  • Venetian: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Vietnamese: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Volapük: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Waray (Philippines): “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Welsh: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉绍德封”
  • “La Chaux-de-Fonds”

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