Meiringen
Meiringen is a town in the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland. with a population in 2020 of 4666. It's a winter sports and mountain hiking resort, best known for the Reichenbach Falls, scene of the fictional death of Sherlock Holmes and his arch-enemy Professor Moriarty.
- Type: Village with 4,720 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Meiringen (munisipyo)”, “Meiringen BE”, and “Мейринген”
- Postal code: 3860
- Neighbors: Brienz and Grindelwald
Places of Interest
Highlights: Reichenbach Falls and Meiringen railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schattenhalb and Innertkirchen.
Innertkirchen
Village
Meiringen
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Interlaken-Oberhasli, Canton of Bern, Bernese Highlands, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.7286° or 46° 43′ 43″ north
Longitude
8.1871° or 8° 11′ 14″ east
Population
4,720
Elevation
599 metres (1,965 feet)
UN/LOCODE
CH MEI
Open location code
8FRCP5HP+CR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Meiringen” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Meiringen”
- Arabic: “ميرينغن (سويسرا)”
- Arabic: “ميرينغن”
- Armenian: “Մայրինգեն”
- Basque: “Meiringen”
- Belarusian: “Майрынген”
- Breton: “Meiringen”
- Catalan: “Meiringen”
- Cebuano: “Meiringen”
- Chinese: “迈林根”
- Chinese: “麦林根”
- Czech: “Meiringen”
- Danish: “Meiringen”
- Dutch: “Meiringen”
- Esperanto: “Meiringen”
- Estonian: “Meiringen”
- Finnish: “Meiringen”
- French: “Meiringen”
- German: “Meiringen”
- Hebrew: “מיירינגן”
- Hungarian: “Meiringen”
- Indonesian: “Meiringen”
- Irish: “Meiringen”
- Italian: “Meiringen”
- Japanese: “マイリンゲン”
- Kazakh: “Майринген”
- Korean: “마이링겐”
- Korean: “마이링엔”
- Latin: “Meiringen”
- Lombard: “Meiringen”
- Malay: “Meiringen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Meiringen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Meiringen”
- Norwegian: “Meiringen”
- Norwegian: “Meyringen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Meiringen”
- Persian: “مرینگن”
- Piemontese: “Meiringen”
- Polish: “Meiringen”
- Portuguese: “Meiringen”
- Pushto: “مای رینګن”
- Romanian: “Meiringen”
- Romansh: “Meiringen”
- Russian: “Майринген”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Meiringen”
- Silesian: “Meiringen”
- Spanish: “Meiringen”
- Swedish: “Meiringen”
- Swiss German: “Meiringe”
- Swiss German: “Meiringen”
- Thai: “ไมริงเงิน”
- Turkish: “Meiringen”
- Ukrainian: “Майрінген”
- Upper Sorbian: “Meiringen”
- Urdu: “میرنگن”
- Venetian: “Meiringen”
- Vietnamese: “Meiringen”
- Volapük: “Meiringen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Meiringen”
- Welsh: “Meiringen”
- “Meiringen”
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Places to explore: Steinmühle and Reutiberg.
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