Thun

Thun is a small city in the of Bern Canton, . Its surface area is 21.7 km², and it had about 44,000 inhabitants in 2017.
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  • 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
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Thun Castle and Thun railway station.

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is a castle in the city of Thun, in the . It was built in the 12th century, today houses the museum, and is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Railway station
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Thun is a railway station in the town of Thun, in the . 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.

Museum
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The , 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.

Town
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is a municipality in the administrative district of in the canton of Bern in . On 1 January 2020 the former municipality of merged into the municipality of .

Village
is a former municipality in the administrative district of in the canton of Bern in . On 1 January 2020 the former municipality of merged into the municipality of .

Village
is a municipality in the administrative district of in the canton of in . is situated 3½ km northwest of Thun.

Thun

Latitude
46.7583° or 46° 45′ 30″ north
Longitude
7.6281° or 7° 37′ 41″ east
Population
43,900
Elevation
560 metres (1,837 feet)
IATA airport code
ZTK
United Nations Location Code
CH THU
Open location code
8FR9QJ5H+86
Open­Street­Map ID
node 178582316
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2658377
Wiki­data ID
Q68978
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Satellite Map

Discover Thun from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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”
  • Hindi: “टून”
  • Hindi: “तुन”
  • 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”
  • Thai: “ทูน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Thun”
  • Turkish: “Thun”
  • Ukrainian: “Тун”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Thun”
  • Urdu: “ثون”
  • Venetian: “Thun”
  • Vietnamese: “Thun”
  • Volapük: “Thoune”
  • Volapük: “Thun”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Thun”
  • Welsh: “Thun”
  • Western Panjabi: “تھن”
  • Wu Chinese: “图恩”
  • “Thun”

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