Le Locle
Le Locle is one of two big cities in the mountain region of the canton of Neuchâte in Switzerland. Often dubbed "town of precision", the city has an impressive heritage of watch making and has been inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List as "La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning".
- Type: Town with 10,500 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Au Locle”, “La Jaluse”, “Le Locle NE”, “Les Billodes”, “Les Jeannerets”, “Les Monts”, “Les Petits Monts”, “Lo Locllo”, “Locle”, “Locle, Le”, “Loclo”, “Losculo”, “Loucle”, “Neuf”, “Ville du Locle”, “Ville du Locle - Les Brenets”, “Ле Локль”, and “ル・ロクル”
- Postal code: 2400
- Neighbors: La Chaux-de-Fonds
Places of Interest
Highlights: Le Locle railway station and Watch Museum of Le Locle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Les Brenets and Quartier-Neuf.
La Sagne
Village
Le Locle
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Le Locle District, Canton of Neuchâtel, Western Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.0556° or 47° 3′ 20″ north
Longitude
6.7455° or 6° 44′ 44″ east
Population
10,500
Elevation
934 metres (3,064 feet)
IATA airport code
ZJA
UN/LOCODE
CH ZJA
Open location code
8FV83P4W+65
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Le Locle” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لو لوكل”
- Aragonese: “Le Locle”
- Armenian: “Լե Լոկլ”
- Armenian: “Լը Լոկլ”
- Arpitan: “Le Lôcllo”
- Arpitan: “Lo Lôcllo”
- Basque: “Le Locle”
- Breton: “Le Locle”
- Catalan: “Le Locle”
- Cebuano: “Le Locle (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Le Locle”
- Chinese: “力洛克”
- Chinese: “勒洛克勒”
- Chuvash: “Ле-Локль”
- Croatian: “Le Locle”
- Czech: “Le Locle”
- Danish: “Le Locle”
- Dutch: “Le Locle”
- Esperanto: “Le Locle”
- Finnish: “Le Locle”
- French: “Le Locle”
- Georgian: “ლე-ლოკლი”
- German: “Le Locle”
- Greek: “Λε Λοκλ”
- Hebrew: “לה לוקל”
- Hungarian: “Le Locle”
- Indonesian: “Le Locle”
- Irish: “Le Locle”
- Italian: “Le Locle”
- Japanese: “ル・ロックル”
- Korean: “르로클”
- Kurdish: “Le Locle”
- Latvian: “Lelokla”
- Lithuanian: “Le Loklė”
- Lithuanian: “Le Loklis”
- Lombard: “Le Locle”
- Luxembourgish: “Le Locle”
- Macedonian: “Ле Локл”
- Malay: “Le Locle”
- Maltese: “Le Locle”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Le Locle”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Le Locle”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Le Locle”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Le Locle”
- Persian: “لو لوکل”
- Polish: “Le Locle”
- Portuguese: “Le Locle”
- Romanian: “Le Locle”
- Russian: “Ле-Локль”
- Serbian: “Ле Локл”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Le Locle”
- Sicilian: “Le Locle”
- Slovenian: “Le Locle”
- Spanish: “Le Locle”
- Swedish: “Le Locle”
- Swiss German: “Le Locle”
- Turkish: “Le Locle”
- Ukrainian: “Ле-Локль”
- Upper Sorbian: “Le Locle”
- Urdu: “لے لوکل”
- Venetian: “Le Locle”
- Vietnamese: “Le Locle”
- Volapük: “Le Locle”
- Waray (Philippines): “Le Locle”
- Welsh: “Le Locle”
- “Le Locle”
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