Western Switzerland
Canton of Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel District

Neuchatel

Neuchâtel is a town of 35,000 people in the western . Neuchâtel is part Suisse Romande — the French-speaking Switzerland.
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  • Type: Town with 33,600 residents
  • Description: city in Switzerland and capital of its canton
  • Also known as: “Neuch‘”, “Neuchâtel”, “Neuchatel, NE”, “Neuchâtel, NE”, “Neuenburg”, and “Newcastle”
  • Postal codes: 2000 and 2001

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stade de la Maladière and Neuchâtel Railway Station.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose stadium in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Neuchâtel Xamax. The stadium holds 12,000. It replaced the old .

Railway station
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serves the municipality of Neuchâtel, the capital city of the canton of , . Opened in 1857, it is owned and operated by SBB-CFF-FFS.

Museum
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The musée d'art et d'histoire is a museum in Neuchâtel, . Among its exhibits are the Jaquet-Droz automata. The collections of paintings include works of Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Peseux and Valangin.

Village
Photo: Yves Häusermann, CC BY 2.0.
is a former municipality in the district of Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel in . On 1 January 2021 the former municipalities of , and merged into the municipality of Neuchâtel.

Village
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is a former municipality in the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in . On 1 January 2021 the former municipalities of , and merged into the municipality of Neuchâtel.

Village
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is a village in the district of Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel in . The municipalities of , and merged on 1 January 2013 into the new municipality of . is situated 4 km west of Neuchatel.

Neuchatel

Latitude
46.9896° or 46° 59′ 23″ north
Longitude
6.9293° or 6° 55′ 45″ east
Population
33,600
Elevation
441 metres (1,447 feet)
IATA airport code
QNC
United Nations Location Code
CH QNC
Open location code
8FR8XWQH+RP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3019197852
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2659496
Wiki­data ID
Q69345
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Neuchatel” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Albanian: “Nojshatel”
  • Albanian: “Nojshateli”
  • Arabic: “نوشاتيل”
  • Arabic: “نيوشاتيل”
  • Armenian: “Նևշատել”
  • Armenian: “Նյոշատել”
  • Armenian: “Նոյենբուրգ”
  • Arpitan: “N’châtél”
  • Arpitan: “Nôchâthél”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nevşatel”
  • Basque: “Neuchatel”
  • Basque: “Neuchâtel”
  • Belarusian: “Неўшатэль”
  • Belarusian: “Нёўшатэль”
  • Belarusian: “Нешатэль”
  • Belarusian: “Нёшатэль”
  • Belarusian: “Нэўшатэль”
  • Breton: “Neuchâtel”
  • Bulgarian: “Ньошател”
  • Catalan: “Neuchatel”
  • Catalan: “Neuchâtel”
  • Cebuano: “Neuchâtel (kapital sa kanton)”
  • Cebuano: “Neuchâtel”
  • Chechen: “Невшатель”
  • Chinese: “Neuchâtel”
  • Chinese: “納沙泰爾”
  • Chinese: “紐沙特”
  • Chinese: “纳沙泰尔”
  • Chuvash: “Невшатель”
  • Corsican: “Neocastellu”
  • Corsican: “Neuchâtel”
  • Corsican: “Neuenburg”
  • Croatian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Czech: “Neuchatel”
  • Czech: “Neuchâtel”
  • Danish: “Neuchatel”
  • Danish: “Neuchâtel”
  • Danish: “Neuenburg”
  • Dutch: “Neuchâtel”
  • Dutch: “Neufchâtel”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيوشاتل”
  • Esperanto: “Métairie d’Hautrive”
  • Esperanto: “Neuchâtel”
  • Esperanto: “Neŭŝatelo”
  • Estonian: “Neuchatel”
  • Estonian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Estonian: “Neuchâteli vald”
  • Finnish: “Neuchatel”
  • Finnish: “Neuchâtel”
  • French: “Indépendance Neuchâteloise”
  • French: “Neuch‘”
  • French: “Neuchatel”
  • French: “Neuchâtel”
  • French: “Neuenburg”
  • French: “Ville de Neuchâtel”
  • Galician: “Neuchâtel, Suíza”
  • Galician: “Neuchâtel”
  • Galician: “Neuenburg”
  • Georgian: “ნევშატელი”
  • German: “Neuchâtel”
  • German: “Neuenburg NE”
  • German: “Neuenburg”
  • German: “Stadt Neuenburg”
  • Greek: “Νεσατέλ”
  • Greek: “Νοσατέλ”
  • Hebrew: “נשאטל”
  • Hungarian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Icelandic: “Neuchatel”
  • Icelandic: “Neuchâtel”
  • Icelandic: “Neuenburg”
  • Indonesian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Irish: “Neuchâtel”
  • Italian: “Neocastello”
  • Italian: “Neuchatel”
  • Italian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Italian: “Nuovocastello”
  • Japanese: “ヌーシャテル”
  • Japanese: “ノイエンブルク”
  • Korean: “뇌샤텔”
  • Kurdish: “Neuchâtel”
  • Latin: “Novicastrum”
  • Latvian: “Neišatele”
  • Lithuanian: “Nešatelis”
  • Lithuanian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Lithuanian: “Neušatelis”
  • Lithuanian: “Noišatelis”
  • Lombard: “Neuchâtel”
  • Luxembourgish: “Neuchatel”
  • Luxembourgish: “Neuchâtel”
  • Macedonian: “Нешател”
  • Macedonian: “Нојенбург”
  • Marathi: “नूशातेल”
  • Marathi: “न्यूशातेल”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Neuchâtel”
  • Northern Frisian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Northern Frisian: “Neuenburg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Neuchatel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Neuchâtel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Neuenburg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Neuchâtel”
  • Norwegian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Neuchâtel”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Neuenburg”
  • Ossetian: “Невшатель”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Nöiäburg”
  • Persian: “نوشاتل”
  • Persian: “نوشتل”
  • Piemontese: “Neuchâtel”
  • Polish: “Neuchatel”
  • Polish: “Neuchâtel”
  • Portuguese: “Neuchâtel”
  • Romanian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Romansh: “Neuchatel”
  • Romansh: “Neuchâtel”
  • Russian: “Невшатель”
  • Russian: “Нёвшатель”
  • Russian: “Нешатель”
  • Russian: “Нёшатель”
  • Rusyn: “Нушател”
  • Scots: “Neuchâtel”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Neuchâtel”
  • Serbian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Serbian: “Neuenburg”
  • Serbian: “Нешател”
  • Serbian: “Нојшател”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Sicilian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Sicilian: “Nusciatel”
  • Silesian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Slovak: “Neuchatel”
  • Slovak: “Neuchâtel”
  • Slovenian: “Neuchâtel”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نوشاتل”
  • Spanish: “Neuchatel”
  • Spanish: “Neuchâtel”
  • Spanish: “Neuenburg”
  • Swedish: “Neuchatel”
  • Swedish: “Neuchâtel”
  • Swiss German: “Neuchâtel”
  • Swiss German: “Neuenburg”
  • Swiss German: “Noieburg”
  • Tatar: “Нөшател”
  • Thai: “เนอชาแตล”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Neuenburg NE”
  • Turkish: “Neuchatel”
  • Turkish: “Neuchâtel”
  • Ukrainian: “Невшатель”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Neuchâtel”
  • Urdu: “نوشاتل”
  • Venetian: “Novocasteło”
  • Vietnamese: “Neuchatel”
  • Vietnamese: “Neuchâtel”
  • Vlaams: “Neuchâtel”
  • Volapük: “Neuchâtel”
  • Volapük: “Neuenburg”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Neuchâtel”
  • Welsh: “Neuchâtel”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیوشاتیل”
  • Wu Chinese: “纳沙泰尔”
  • “Neuchâtel”

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