Murten
Murten is a predominately German speaking town located on the German/French language border in the Three Lakes area of Switzerland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 8,220 residents
- Description: municipality and city in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Muratum”, “Murten FR”, and “Murten/Morat”
- Historically known as: “Morat”
- Postal code: 3280
Places of Interest
Highlights include Murten/Morat railway station and Morat Castle.
Murten/Morat railway station
Railway station
Photo: JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Murten/Morat railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Murten, in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. It is located at the southern junction of the standard gauge Fribourg–Ins and Palézieux–Lyss lines of Swiss Federal Railways.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Münchenwiler and Muntelier.
Münchenwiler
Village
Photo: Ch-info.ch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Münchenwiler is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Muntelier
Village
Photo: Patrick Nouhailler’s…, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Muntelier is a municipality in the district of See in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg.
Courgevaux
Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Courgevaux is a municipality in the district of See or district du Lac in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
Murten
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: See, Canton of Fribourg, Western Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.9289° or 46° 55′ 44″ northLongitude
7.1164° or 7° 6′ 59″ eastPopulation
8,220Elevation
435 metres (1,427 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH MTNOpen location code
8FR9W4H8+GHOpenStreetMap ID
node 1423960546OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Murten” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Murten”
- Albanian: “Murten”
- Arabic: “مورتين”
- Armenian: “Մուրթեն”
- Armenian: “Մուրտեն”
- Arpitan: “Morât”
- Asturian: “Murten”
- Basque: “Murten”
- Catalan: “Morat”
- Catalan: “Murten”
- Cebuano: “Murten/Morat (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Murten/Morat”
- Chinese: “Murten”
- Chinese: “穆尔滕”
- Chinese: “穆爾滕”
- Corsican: “Morat”
- Czech: “Murten”
- Dutch: “Murten”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مورتين”
- Esperanto: “Lac de Morat”
- Esperanto: “Morat”
- Esperanto: “Morato”
- Esperanto: “Murten”
- Esperanto: “Murtensee”
- Finnish: “Murten”
- French: “Morat”
- French: “Murten”
- Galician: “Murten”
- German: “Murten”
- German: “Prehl”
- Greek: “Μούρτεν”
- Hebrew: “מורטן”
- Hungarian: “Murten”
- Irish: “Murten”
- Italian: “Morat”
- Italian: “Morato” (historical)
- Italian: “Murten”
- Japanese: “ムルテン”
- Korean: “무르텐”
- Kurdish: “Murten”
- Latin: “Morat”
- Latin: “Muratum”
- Latin: “Murten”
- Lombard: “Murten/Morat”
- Lombard: “Murten”
- Macedonian: “Муртен”
- Malay: “Murten”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Murten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Murten”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Murten”
- Persian: “مورتان”
- Piemontese: “Murten”
- Polish: “Murten”
- Portuguese: “Morat”
- Portuguese: “Murten”
- Romansh: “Murten/Morat”
- Romansh: “Murten”
- Russian: “Мора”
- Russian: “Муртен”
- Serbian: “Murten”
- Serbian: “Муртен/Морат”
- Serbian: “Муртен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Murten”
- Sicilian: “Morat”
- Sicilian: “Murten”
- Slovenian: “Murten”
- Spanish: “Morat”
- Spanish: “Murten Morat”
- Spanish: “Murten-Morat”
- Spanish: “Murten”
- Spanish: “Murten/Morat”
- Swedish: “Morat”
- Swedish: “Murten/Morat”
- Swedish: “Murten”
- Swiss German: “Morat”
- Swiss German: “Murte”
- Tosk Albanian: “Murten”
- Turkish: “Murten”
- Ukrainian: “Муртен”
- Upper Sorbian: “Murten”
- Venetian: “Morat”
- Vietnamese: “Murten”
- Volapük: “Murten”
- Waray (Philippines): “Murten”
- Welsh: “Murten”
- “Murten”
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