Thun
Thun is a small city in the Bernese Highlands of Bern Canton, Switzerland. Its surface area is 21.7 km², and it had about 44,000 inhabitants in 2017.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 43,900 residents
- Description: town and municipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Stadt Thun”, “Thoune”, and “Thun BE”
- Postal codes: 3600, 3603, 3604, and 3608
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thun Castle and Thun railway station.
Thun Castle
Thun Castle is a castle in the city of Thun, in the Swiss canton of Bern. It was built in the 12th century, today houses the Thun Castle museum, and is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Thun railway station
Railway station
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Thun is a railway station in the town of Thun, in the Swiss canton of Bern. At the station, the Swiss Federal Railways owned Bern to Thun main line makes a junction with the other lines, all owned by the BLS AG.
Wocher Panorama
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Wocher Panorama, also known as the Thun Panorama, is a panoramic painting depicting the city of Thun. Created by the artist Marquard Wocher in 1814, it was the first panorama in Switzerland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Steffisburg and Schwendibach.
Steffisburg
Town
Photo: Clark park, Public domain.
Steffisburg is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2020 the former municipality of Schwendibach merged into the municipality of Steffisburg.
Schwendibach
Village
Schwendibach is a former municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2020 the former municipality of Schwendibach merged into the municipality of Steffisburg.
Heimberg
Village
Heimberg is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Heimberg is situated 3½ km northwest of Thun.
Thun
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Thun, Canton of Bern, Bernese Highlands, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.7583° or 46° 45′ 30″ northLongitude
7.6281° or 7° 37′ 41″ eastPopulation
43,900Elevation
560 metres (1,837 feet)IATA airport code
ZTKUnited Nations Location Code
CH THUOpen location code
8FR9QJ5H+86OpenStreetMap ID
node 178582316OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2658377Wikidata ID
Q68978
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover Thun from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Thun” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Thun”
- Arabic: “ثون”
- Aragonese: “Thun”
- Armenian: “Թուն”
- Azerbaijani: “Tun”
- Basque: “Thun”
- Belarusian: “Тун”
- Bulgarian: “Тун”
- Catalan: “Thun”
- Cebuano: “Thun (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Thun”
- Central Kurdish: “تون”
- Chinese: “Thun”
- Chinese: “图恩”
- Chinese: “土恩”
- Chuvash: “Тун”
- Croatian: “Thun”
- Czech: “Thun”
- Danish: “Thun”
- Dutch: “Thun”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ثون”
- Esperanto: “Thun”
- Estonian: “Thun”
- Finnish: “Thun”
- French: “Thoune”
- French: “Thun”
- Galician: “Thun”
- Georgian: “თუნი”
- German: “Stadt Thun”
- German: “Thoune”
- German: “Thun BE”
- German: “Thun”
- Greek: “Τουν”
- Hebrew: “ת’ון”
- Hebrew: “תון”
- Hungarian: “Thun”
- Indonesian: “Thun”
- Interlingue: “Thun”
- Irish: “Thun”
- Italian: “Thoun”
- Italian: “Thun”
- Japanese: “トゥーン”
- Kazakh: “Тун”
- Korean: “툰”
- Kurdish: “Thoune”
- Kurdish: “Thun”
- Latin: “Timium”
- Latvian: “Tūna”
- Lithuanian: “Tunas”
- Lithuanian: “Tūnas”
- Lombard: “Thoune”
- Lombard: “Thun”
- Luxembourgish: “Thun”
- Malay: “Thun”
- Malayalam: “Thun”
- Malayalam: “ടൂൺ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thun”
- Mingrelian: “თუნი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thun”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thun”
- Norwegian: “Thun”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Thun”
- Persian: “Thun”
- Persian: “تون”
- Piemontese: “Thun”
- Polish: “Thun”
- Portuguese: “Thun”
- Portuguese: “Tune”
- Pushto: “تون”
- Romanian: “Thoune”
- Romanian: “Thun”
- Romansh: “Thun”
- Russian: “Тун”
- Russian: “Тюн”
- Scots: “Thun”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Thun”
- Serbian: “Thun”
- Serbian: “Тун”
- Sicilian: “Thun”
- Silesian: “Thun”
- Slovak: “Thun”
- Slovenian: “Thun”
- South Azerbaijani: “تون”
- Spanish: “Thoune”
- Spanish: “Thun”
- Swahili: “Thun”
- Swedish: “Thoune”
- Swedish: “Thun”
- Swiss German: “Thun”
- Tatar: “Тун (шәһәр)”
- Tatar: “Тун”
- Tosk Albanian: “Thun”
- Turkish: “Thun”
- Ukrainian: “Тун”
- Upper Sorbian: “Thun”
- Venetian: “Thun”
- Vietnamese: “Thun”
- Volapük: “Thoune”
- Volapük: “Thun”
- Waray (Philippines): “Thun”
- Welsh: “Thun”
- Western Panjabi: “تھن”
- Wu Chinese: “图恩”
- “Thun”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Thun”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Bellevuewald and Kasernen.
Bernese Highlands: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Interlaken, Lauterbrunnen, Grindelwald, and Meiringen.
Explore These Curated Destinations
Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
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 “Thun”. Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.