Switzerland
Valais
Sierre District

Sierre

Sierre is a city in Central . While the city is in the French part of Valais, there is a large German-speaking population and you will encounter many people being fluent in both languages.
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  • Type: Town with 16,700 residents
  • Description: town and municipality in the canton of Valais in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Siders”, “Siders, Valais”, “Siders, VS”, and “Sierre, VS”
  • Postal code: 3960
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sierre/Siders railway station and Château Mercier.

Railway station
Photo: Albins, Public domain.
is a railway station in the municipality of Sierre, in the canton of Valais. It is an intermediate stop on the Simplon line and is served by local and long-distance trains.

Castle
Photo: Albins, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a castle.

Museum
Photo: Azuff, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chippis and Veyras.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of in .

Village
Photo: Nouchka, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a former municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of in . On 1 January 2021 the former municipalities of , and merged to form the new municipality of Noble-Contrée.

Village
Photo: Jeremy.toma, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a former municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of in . On 1 January 2021 the former municipalities of , and merged to form the new municipality of Noble-Contrée.

Sierre

Latitude
46.2923° or 46° 17′ 32″ north
Longitude
7.5323° or 7° 31′ 56″ east
Population
16,700
Elevation
528 metres (1,732 feet)
Open location code
8FR97GRJ+WW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60031299
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2658606
Wiki­data ID
Q68297
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Sierre” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Sierre”
  • Arabic: “ساير”
  • Armenian: “Սիեր”
  • Arpitan: “Siérro”
  • Basque: “Sierre”
  • Belarusian: “Сьер”
  • Breton: “Sierre”
  • Catalan: “Siders”
  • Catalan: “Sierre”
  • Cebuano: “Sierre (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Sierre”
  • Chinese: “Sierre”
  • Chinese: “西耶尔”
  • Chinese: “西耶爾”
  • Chinese: “谢尔”
  • Corsican: “Sierre”
  • Croatian: “Sierre”
  • Czech: “Sierre”
  • Danish: “Sierre”
  • Dutch: “Siders”
  • Dutch: “Sierre”
  • Esperanto: “Sierre”
  • Estonian: “Siders”
  • Estonian: “Sierre”
  • Finnish: “Siders”
  • Finnish: “Sierre”
  • French: “Siders”
  • French: “Sierre”
  • Galician: “Sierre”
  • German: “Granges VS”
  • German: “Granges”
  • German: “Siders”
  • German: “Sierre”
  • Greek: “Σιέρε”
  • Hebrew: “סייר”
  • Hungarian: “Sierre”
  • Indonesian: “Sierre”
  • Irish: “Sierre”
  • Italian: “Sierre”
  • Japanese: “シエール”
  • Japanese: “シエル (スイス)”
  • Kazakh: “Сьерре”
  • Korean: “시에르”
  • Kurdish: “Sierre”
  • Latin: “Sidrium”
  • Latin: “Sirrus”
  • Latvian: “Sierre”
  • Lithuanian: “Sjeras”
  • Lombard: “Sierre”
  • Luxembourgish: “Siders”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sierre”
  • Macedonian: “Сер”
  • Malay: “Sierre”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sierre”
  • Narom: “Sierre”
  • Neapolitan: “Sierre”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sierre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sierre”
  • Norwegian: “Sierre”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sierre”
  • Persian: “سیر، سوئیس”
  • Persian: “سیر”
  • Piemontese: “Sierre”
  • Polish: “Siders”
  • Polish: “Sierre”
  • Portuguese: “Sierre”
  • Romanian: “Sierre”
  • Romansh: “Sierre”
  • Russian: “Сиерре”
  • Russian: “Сьер”
  • Serbian: “Sierre”
  • Serbian: “Сијер/Зидерс”
  • Serbian: “Сијер”
  • Sicilian: “Sierre”
  • Silesian: “Sierre”
  • Slovak: “Sierre”
  • Slovenian: “Sierre, Švica”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سیر”
  • Spanish: “Siders Sierre”
  • Spanish: “Siders-Sierre”
  • Spanish: “Siders”
  • Spanish: “Sierre Siders”
  • Spanish: “Sierre-Siders”
  • Spanish: “Sierre”
  • Spanish: “Sierre/Siders”
  • Swedish: “Sierre”
  • Swiss German: “Siders”
  • Tahitian: “Sierre”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Siders”
  • Turkish: “Sierre”
  • Ukrainian: “Сьєр”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sierre”
  • Venetian: “Sierre”
  • Volapük: “Sierre”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sierre”
  • Welsh: “Sierre”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Sierre”. Photo: Famberhorst, CC BY-SA 4.0.