Sierre
Sierre is a city in Central Valais. 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.
- Type: Town with 16,700 residents
- Description: town and municipality in the canton of Valais in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Granges”, “Granges VS”, “Siders Sierre”, “Siders-Sierre”, “Siders, Valais”, “Siders, VS”, “Sidrium”, “Sierre (munisipyo)”, “Sierre Siders”, “Sierre-Siders”, “Sierre, VS”, “Sierre/Siders”, “Сијер”, “سیر، سوئیس”, “シエル (スイス)”, “西耶尔”, and “西耶爾”
- Postal code: 3960
- Neighbors: Crans Montana
Places of Interest
Highlights: Sierre/Siders railway station and Château Mercier.
Sierre/Siders railway station
Railway station
Photo: Albins, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chippis and Veyras.
Chippis
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Veyras
Village
Venthône
Village
Sierre
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Sierre District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Sierre” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Sierre”
- Arabic: “ساير”
- Aragonese: “Sierre”
- Armenian: “Սիեր”
- Arpitan: “Siérro”
- Basque: “Sierre”
- Belarusian: “Сьер”
- Breton: “Sierre”
- Catalan: “Sierre”
- Cebuano: “Sierre”
- Chinese: “谢尔”
- Corsican: “Sierre”
- Croatian: “Sierre”
- Czech: “Sierre”
- Danish: “Sierre”
- Dutch: “Sierre”
- Esperanto: “Sierre”
- Estonian: “Sierre”
- Finnish: “Sierre”
- French: “Sierre”
- Galician: “Sierre”
- German: “Siders”
- German: “Sierre”
- Greek: “Σιέρε”
- Hebrew: “סייר”
- Hungarian: “Sierre”
- Indonesian: “Sierre”
- Irish: “Sierre”
- Italian: “Sierre”
- Japanese: “シエール”
- Jèrriais: “Sierre”
- Kazakh: “Сьерре”
- Korean: “시에르”
- Kurdish: “Sierre”
- Latin: “Sirrus”
- Latvian: “Sierre”
- Lithuanian: “Sjeras”
- Lombard: “Sierre”
- Luxembourgish: “Sierre”
- Macedonian: “Сер”
- Malay: “Sierre”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sierre”
- Neapolitan: “Sierre”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sierre”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sierre”
- Norwegian: “Sierre”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sierre”
- Persian: “سیر”
- Piemontese: “Sierre”
- Polish: “Sierre”
- Portuguese: “Sierre”
- Romanian: “Sierre”
- Romansh: “Sierre”
- Russian: “Сиерре”
- Russian: “Сьер”
- Serbian: “Сијер/Зидерс”
- Sicilian: “Sierre”
- Silesian: “Sierre”
- Slovak: “Sierre”
- Slovenian: “Sierre”
- South Azerbaijani: “سیر”
- Spanish: “Sierre”
- Swedish: “Sierre”
- Swiss German: “Siders”
- Tahitian: “Sierre”
- Turkish: “Sierre”
- Ukrainian: “Сьєр”
- Upper Sorbian: “Sierre”
- Urdu: “سیئر”
- Venetian: “Sierre”
- Volapük: “Sierre”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sierre”
- Welsh: “Sierre”
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