Vevey
Vevey is a town in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Leman, near Lausanne. The German name Vivis is no longer commonly used.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 19,200 residents
- Description: city and municipality on Lake Geneva, in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Vevey VD”, “Vevey, Switzerland”, and “Vevey, Vaud”
- Postal code: 1800
Places of Interest
Highlights include Musée Jenisch and Vevey railway station.
Musée Jenisch
Museum
Photo: Dirrival, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Musée Jenisch is a museum of fine arts and prints at Vevey in Vaud in Switzerland. It was set up on 10 March 1897, thanks to a legacy of 200,000 francs from Fanny Henriette Jenisch, wife of Martin Johann Jenisch, a senator of Hamburg.
Vevey railway station
Railway station
Photo: Jmh2o, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vevey railway station is a public transport hub not far from the shore of Lake Geneva. It serves the municipality of Vevey, in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
Swiss Museum of Games
Museum
Located on the shore of Lake Geneva between the cities of Vevey and Montreux, the Swiss Museum of Games in La Tour-de-Peilz is dedicated to the preservation, research and dissemination of various forms of parlor games.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Tour-de-Peilz and Corsier-sur-Vevey.
La Tour-de-Peilz
Town
Photo: MSjeu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
La Tour-de-Peilz is a municipality in Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The city is located on Lake Geneva between Montreux and Vevey.
Corsier-sur-Vevey
Village
Photo: Le Mirador Kempinski, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Corsier-sur-Vevey is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Chardonne
Village
Photo: Jmh2o, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chardonne is a municipality in the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Vevey
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Riviera-Pays-d’Enhaut District, Vaud, Western Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.4603° or 46° 27′ 37″ northLongitude
6.8419° or 6° 50′ 31″ eastPopulation
19,200Elevation
388 metres (1,273 feet)IATA airport code
ZKZUnited Nations Location Code
CH ZKZOpen location code
8FR8FR6R+4POpenStreetMap ID
node 3738814254OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2658145Wikidata ID
Q68160
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Vevey” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Vevey”
- Arabic: “فيفي”
- Armenian: “Վևե”
- Arpitan: “Vevê”
- Basque: “Vevey”
- Belarusian: “Вевэ”
- Belarusian: “Вэвэ”
- Breton: “Vevey”
- Bulgarian: “Вeве”
- Bulgarian: “Веве”
- Bulgarian: “Вевей”
- Bulgarian: “Вьове”
- Catalan: “Vevey VD”
- Catalan: “Vevey”
- Cebuano: “Vevey”
- Chechen: “Веве”
- Chinese: “Vevey”
- Chinese: “沃韋”
- Chinese: “沃韦”
- Czech: “Vevey”
- Danish: “Vevey”
- Dutch: “Vevey”
- Esperanto: “Vevey”
- Estonian: “Vevey”
- Finnish: “Vevey”
- French: “Vevey VD”
- French: “Vevey”
- Galician: “Vevey”
- Georgian: “ვევე”
- Georgian: “ვევეი”
- German: “Clies”
- German: “Gilamont”
- German: “Vevey VD”
- German: “Vevey”
- German: “Vibiscus”
- German: “Vivis”
- German: “Viviscus”
- Greek: “Βεβέ”
- Greek: “Βέβεϊ”
- Gujarati: “વેવેઈ”
- Hausa: “Vevey”
- Hebrew: “ווה”
- Hindi: “वेवे”
- Hungarian: “Vevey”
- Indonesian: “Vevê”
- Indonesian: “Vevey”
- Irish: “Vevey”
- Italian: “Vevey VD”
- Italian: “Vevey”
- Japanese: “ヴヴェ”
- Japanese: “ヴヴェー”
- Japanese: “ヴヴェイ”
- Japanese: “ヴェヴェー”
- Japanese: “ヴェヴェイ”
- Korean: “브베”
- Kurdish: “Vevey”
- Latin: “Vibiscum”
- Latin: “Viviscum”
- Lithuanian: “Vevė”
- Lombard: “Vevey”
- Luxembourgish: “Vevey”
- Malagasy: “Vevey”
- Malay: “Vevey”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vevey”
- Mingrelian: “ვევე”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vevey”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vevey”
- Norwegian: “Vevey”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Vevey”
- Persian: “وو وه”
- Persian: “ووه”
- Polish: “Vevey”
- Portuguese: “Vevey”
- Romanian: “Vevey”
- Romansh: “Vevey”
- Russian: “Веве”
- Russian: “Вёве”
- Russian: “Вевэ”
- Scots: “Vevey”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Vevey”
- Serbian: “Vevey”
- Serbian: “Веве”
- Serbian: “Вевеј”
- Sicilian: “Vevey”
- Slovenian: “Vevey”
- South Azerbaijani: “وو وه”
- Spanish: “Vevey”
- Swedish: “Vevey”
- Swiss German: “Vevey”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Vevey”
- Tagalog: “Vevey”
- Tajik: “Веве”
- Thai: “เวอแว”
- Tosk Albanian: “Vevey”
- Turkish: “Vevey”
- Ukrainian: “Веве”
- Upper Sorbian: “Vevey”
- Venetian: “Vevey”
- Volapük: “Vevey”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vevey”
- Welsh: “Vevey”
- Wu Chinese: “沃韦”
- “Vevey”
- “Vevey VD”
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