Lucerne
Lucerne is a beautiful small city which sits on the shores of Lake Lucerne in the heartland of Switzerland. Lucerne is a popular destination for the city itself and the accessible outings around the lake and local Alps that it offers.
- Type: City with 86,200 residents
- Description: city at Lake Lucerne, in central Switzerland
- Also known as: “Lucerna.”, “Lucerne LU”, “Lucerne, Switzerland”, “Lüsern”, “Luzern, Lucerna”, and “Stadt Luzern”
- Postal codes: 6000, 6003-6006, and 6014
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kapellbrücke and Lucerne railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kriens and Emmen.
Lucerne
Latitude
47.0521° or 47° 3′ 8″ north
Longitude
8.3058° or 8° 18′ 21″ east
Population
86,200
Elevation
437 metres (1,434 feet)
UN/LOCODE
CH LUC
Open location code
8FVC3824+V8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lucerne” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Luzern”
- Albanian: “Lucerni”
- Amharic: “ሉሴርን”
- Arabic: “لوسرن”
- Aragonese: “Lucerna”
- Armenian: “Լյուցեռն”
- Armenian: “Լյուցերն”
- Arpitan: “Lutsèrna”
- Azerbaijani: “Lütsern”
- Azerbaijani: “Lyutsern”
- Basque: “Luzerna”
- Belarusian: “Люцэрн”
- Bengali: “লুসার্ন”
- Bosnian: “Lucern”
- Bosnian: “Luzern”
- Breton: “Luzern”
- Bulgarian: “Луцерн”
- Bulgarian: “Люцерн”
- Catalan: “Lucerna”
- Cebuano: “Luzern”
- Chechen: “Луьцерн”
- Chechen: “Люцерн”
- Chinese: “卢塞恩”
- Chinese: “琉森”
- Chinese: “盧塞恩”
- Chuvash: “Люцерн”
- Croatian: “Luzern”
- Czech: “Lucern”
- Danish: “Luzern”
- Dutch: “Luzern”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لوسرن”
- Esperanto: “Lucerno”
- Estonian: “Luzern”
- Faroese: “Luzern”
- Finnish: “Luzern”
- French: “Lucerne”
- Galician: “Lucerna”
- Georgian: “ლუცერნი”
- German: “Luzern”
- Greek: “Λουκέρνη”
- Hausa: “Lucerne”
- Hebrew: “לוצרן”
- Hindi: “लुसेर्न”
- Hindi: “लूसर्न”
- Hindi: “ल्यूसर्न”
- Hungarian: “Luzern”
- Icelandic: “Luzern”
- Iloko: “Lucerna”
- Indonesian: “Lucerne”
- Indonesian: “Luzern”
- Interlingua: “Lucerna”
- Interlingue: “Luzern”
- Irish: “Luzern”
- Italian: “Lucerna”
- Japanese: “ルツェルン”
- Javanese: “Canton Lucerne”
- Kazakh: “Люцерн”
- Kirghiz: “Люцерн”
- Korean: “루체른”
- Kurdish: “Lucerne”
- Latin: “Lucerna”
- Latvian: “Lucerna”
- Lithuanian: “Liucerna”
- Lombard: “Lüzerna”
- Low German: “Luzern”
- Luxembourgish: “Luzern”
- Malay: “Lucerne”
- Malay: “Luzern”
- Maltese: “Lucerna”
- Marathi: “लुत्सर्न”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Luzern”
- Mingrelian: “ლუცერნი”
- Moksha: “Люцэрн”
- Nauru: “Luzern”
- Northern Frisian: “Luzern”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Luzern”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Luzern”
- Norwegian: “Luzern”
- Novial: “Lucerne”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lucèrna”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lucerne”
- Oromo: “Lucerne”
- Ossetian: “Люцерн”
- Panjabi: “ਲੁਸਰਨ”
- Persian: “لوسرن”
- Piemontese: “Lucerna”
- Polish: “Lucerna”
- Portuguese: “Lucerna”
- Pushto: “لوزرن”
- Pushto: “لوسرن”
- Quechua: “Luzern”
- Romanian: “Lucerna”
- Romansh: “Lucerna”
- Russian: “Люцерн”
- Scots: “Lucerne”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Luzern”
- Serbian: “Луцерн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lucerne”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Luzern”
- Sicilian: “Lucerna”
- Silesian: “Luzern”
- Slovak: “Luzern”
- Slovenian: “Luzern”
- Somali: “Lucerne”
- South Azerbaijani: “ار، سوئیس”
- Spanish: “Lucerna”
- Swahili: “Lucerne”
- Swahili: “Luzern”
- Swedish: “Luzern”
- Swiss German: “Lozärn”
- Swiss German: “Luzern”
- Tajik: “Люсерн”
- Tajik: “Люцерн”
- Tamil: “லூசெர்ன்”
- Tatar: “Люцерн”
- Thai: “ลูเซิร์น”
- Tibetan: “ལུ་ཛེར་ན།”
- Turkish: “Lucerne”
- Turkish: “Luzern”
- Ukrainian: “Люцерн”
- Upper Sorbian: “Lucerne”
- Urdu: “لوتسیرن”
- Urdu: “لوسرن”
- Uzbek: “Luzern”
- Uzbek: “Lyutsen”
- Venetian: “Łuxerna”
- Venetian: “Luzerna”
- Vietnamese: “Lucerne”
- Vietnamese: “Luzern”
- Volapük: “Luzern”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lucerne”
- Welsh: “Lucerne”
- Wu Chinese: “卢塞恩”
- Yiddish: “לוצערן”
- Yue Chinese: “琉森”
- Yue Chinese: “盧塞恩”
- “Lucern”
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