Western Switzerland
Canton of Neuchâtel
Le Locle District

Le Locle

Le Locle is the one of two big cities in the mountain region of the canton of Neuchâte in . 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 " / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning".
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  • Type: Town with 10,500 residents
  • Description: municipality in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Au Locle”, “Le Locle NE”, “Locle”, and “Locle, Le”
  • Postal code: 2400
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Le Locle railway station and Watch Museum of Le Locle.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the municipality of Le Locle, in the canton of . It is located at the junction of the standard gauge Neuchâtel–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches line of Swiss Federal Railways and the 1,000 mm gauge Le Locle–Les Brenets line of Transports publics neuchâtelois.

Museum
The is a municipal museum specializing in horology, located in Le Locle, , Switzerland. It is open to the public.

Museum
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Les Brenets and Quartier-Neuf.

Village
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY 3.0.
is a former municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel in . On 1 January 2021 the former municipality of merged into Le Locle.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Village
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY 3.0.
is a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel in . is situated 4½ km southeast of Le Locle.

Le Locle

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
United Nations Location Code
CH ZJA
Open location code
8FV83P4W+65
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240082939
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2659960
Wiki­data ID
Q64093
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Le Locle” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لو لوكل”
  • 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: “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: “La Jaluse”
  • Esperanto: “Le Locle”
  • Esperanto: “Les Billodes”
  • Esperanto: “Les Monts”
  • Esperanto: “Neuf”
  • Finnish: “Le Locle”
  • French: “Le Locle”
  • French: “Ville du Locle - Les Brenets”
  • French: “Ville du Locle”
  • Georgian: “ლე-ლოკლი”
  • German: “La Jaluse”
  • German: “Le Locle”
  • German: “Les Billodes”
  • German: “Les Jeannerets”
  • German: “Les Petits Monts”
  • German: “Loclo”
  • German: “Losculo”
  • German: “Loucle”
  • Greek: “Λε Λοκλ”
  • Hebrew: “לה לוקל”
  • Hungarian: “Le Locle”
  • Indonesian: “Le Locle”
  • Indonesian: “Lo Locllo”
  • Indonesian: “Lo Lôcllo”
  • Irish: “Le Locle”
  • Italian: “Le Locle”
  • Japanese: “ル・ロクル”
  • Japanese: “ル・ロックル”
  • Korean: “르로클”
  • Kurdish: “Le Locle”
  • Latvian: “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”
  • Russian: “Ле Локль”
  • Russian: “Ле-Локль”
  • Serbian: “Le Locle”
  • Serbian: “Ле Локл”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Le Locle”
  • Sicilian: “Le Locle”
  • Slovenian: “Le Locle”
  • Spanish: “Le Locle”
  • Swedish: “Le Locle”
  • Swiss German: “Le Locle”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Le Locle”
  • Turkish: “Le Locle”
  • Ukrainian: “Ле-Локль”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Le Locle”
  • Venetian: “Le Locle”
  • Vietnamese: “Le Locle”
  • Volapük: “Le Locle”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Le Locle”
  • Welsh: “Le Locle”
  • “Le Locle”

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