Murten
Murten is a predominately German speaking town located on the German/French language border in the Three Lakes area of Switzerland.
- Type: Town with 9,550 residents
- Description: municipality and city in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Lac de Morat”, “Murten FR”, “Murten Morat”, “Murten-Morat”, “Murten/Morat (munisipyo)”, “Murtensee”, “Prehl”, and “Мора”
- Historically known as: “Morat”
- Postal code: 3280
Places of Interest
Highlights: Murten/Morat railway station and Morat Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Münchenwiler and Muntelier.
Muntelier
Village
Murten
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: See, Canton of Fribourg, Western Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.9289° or 46° 55′ 44″ north
Longitude
7.1164° or 7° 6′ 59″ east
Population
9,550
Elevation
435 metres (1,427 feet)
UN/LOCODE
CH MTN
Open location code
8FR9W4H8+GH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Murten” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Murten”
- Albanian: “Murten”
- Arabic: “مورتين”
- Aragonese: “Murten”
- Armenian: “Մուրթեն”
- Armenian: “Մուրտեն”
- Arpitan: “Morât”
- Asturian: “Murten”
- Basque: “Murten”
- Catalan: “Murten”
- Cebuano: “Murten/Morat”
- Chinese: “穆尔滕”
- Chinese: “穆爾滕”
- Corsican: “Morat”
- Czech: “Murten”
- Dutch: “Murten”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مورتين”
- Esperanto: “Morato”
- Finnish: “Murten”
- French: “Morat”
- Galician: “Murten”
- German: “Murten”
- Greek: “Μούρτεν”
- Hebrew: “מורטן”
- Hungarian: “Murten”
- Irish: “Murten”
- Italian: “Morat”
- Italian: “Morato” (historical)
- Japanese: “ムルテン”
- Korean: “무르텐”
- Kurdish: “Murten”
- Latin: “Muratum”
- Lombard: “Murten”
- Macedonian: “Муртен”
- Malay: “Murten”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Murten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Murten”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Murten”
- Persian: “مورتان”
- Piemontese: “Murten”
- Polish: “Murten”
- Portuguese: “Murten”
- Romanian: “Murten”
- Romansh: “Murten”
- Russian: “Муртен”
- Serbian: “Муртен/Морат”
- Serbian: “Муртен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Murten”
- Sicilian: “Murten”
- Slovenian: “Murten”
- Spanish: “Murten”
- Swedish: “Murten”
- Swiss German: “Murte”
- Swiss German: “Murten”
- Turkish: “Murten”
- Ukrainian: “Муртен”
- Ukrainian: “Му́ртен”
- Upper Sorbian: “Murten”
- Venetian: “Morat”
- Vietnamese: “Murten”
- Volapük: “Murten”
- Waray (Philippines): “Murten”
- Welsh: “Murten”
- “Murten”
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