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.
- Type: Town with 43,900 residents
- Description: town and municipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Stadt Thun”, “Thoun”, “Thun BE”, “Tūnas”, “Тюн”, “ת’ון”, and “तुन”
- Postal codes: 3600, 3603, 3604, and 3608
Places of Interest
Highlights: Thun Castle and Thun railway station.
Thun Castle
Thun Castle is a castle in the city of Thun, in the Swiss canton of Bern.
Thun railway station
Railway station
Wocher Panorama
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Steffisburg and Schwendibach.
Steffisburg
Town
Photo: Clark park, Public domain.Heimberg
Village
Heimberg is a municipality in the administrative… Heimberg is situated 3½ km northwest of Thun.
Thun
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Thun District, Canton of Bern, Bernese Highlands, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
UN/LOCODE
CH THU
Open location code
8FR9QJ5H+86
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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: “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”
- Galician: “Thun”
- Georgian: “თუნი”
- German: “Thun”
- Greek: “Τουν”
- Hebrew: “תון”
- Hindi: “टून”
- Hungarian: “Thun”
- Indonesian: “Thun”
- Interlingue: “Thun”
- Irish: “Thun”
- Italian: “Thun”
- Japanese: “トゥーン”
- Kazakh: “Тун”
- Korean: “툰”
- Kurdish: “Thun”
- Latin: “Timium”
- Latvian: “Tūna”
- Lithuanian: “Tunas”
- Lombard: “Thun”
- Luxembourgish: “Thun”
- Malay: “Thun”
- Malayalam: “ടൂൺ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thun”
- Mingrelian: “თუნი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thun”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thun”
- Norwegian: “Thun”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Thun”
- Persian: “تون”
- Piemontese: “Thun”
- Polish: “Thun”
- Portuguese: “Tune”
- Pushto: “تون”
- Romanian: “Thun”
- Romansh: “Thun”
- Russian: “Тун”
- Scots: “Thun”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Thun”
- Serbian: “Тун”
- Sicilian: “Thun”
- Silesian: “Thun”
- Slovak: “Thun”
- Slovenian: “Thun”
- South Azerbaijani: “تون”
- Spanish: “Thun”
- Swahili: “Thun”
- Swedish: “Thun”
- Swiss German: “Thun”
- Tatar: “Тун (шәһәр)”
- Tatar: “Тун”
- Thai: “ทูน”
- Turkish: “Thun”
- Ukrainian: “Тун”
- Upper Sorbian: “Thun”
- Urdu: “ثون”
- Venetian: “Thun”
- Vietnamese: “Thun”
- Volapük: “Thun”
- Waray (Philippines): “Thun”
- Welsh: “Thun”
- Western Panjabi: “تھن”
- Wu Chinese: “图恩”
- “Thun”
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