Wengen
Wengen is an Alpine resort in the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland. It's at 1,274 m above sea level, reached by cog railway and with no vehicle access, on the route up towards the Eiger and Jungfrau.
- Type: Village with 1,120 residents
- Description: village in the municipality of Lauterbrunnen in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Wengen BE”, “Wengen, Switzerland”, and “溫根”
- Postal code: 3823
Places of Interest
Highlights: Staubbach Falls and Männlichen.
Männlichen
Peak
Wengen Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Andrewrabbott, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Isenfluh and Lütschental.
Lütschental
Village
Wengen
- Categories: carfree city, car-free place, neighborhood, Ortschaft, and locality
- Location: Lauterbrunnen, Interlaken-Oberhasli, Canton of Bern, Bernese Highlands, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.6054° or 46° 36′ 20″ north
Longitude
7.9217° or 7° 55′ 18″ east
Population
1,120
Elevation
1,272 metres (4,173 feet)
IATA airport code
ZLE
UN/LOCODE
CH WNG
Open location code
8FR9JW4C+5M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Wengen” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وينجن”
- Armenian: “Վենգեն”
- Bulgarian: “Венген”
- Catalan: “Wengen”
- Cebuano: “Wengen”
- Chinese: “文根”
- Croatian: “Wengen”
- Czech: “Wengen”
- Dutch: “Wengen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وينجن”
- Estonian: “Wengen”
- Finnish: “Wengen”
- French: “Wengen”
- German: “Wengen BE”
- German: “Wengen”
- Hungarian: “Wengen”
- Italian: “Wengen”
- Japanese: “ヴェンゲン”
- Korean: “벵겐”
- Korean: “벵엔”
- Luxembourgish: “Wengen BE”
- Luxembourgish: “Wengen”
- Macedonian: “Венген”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wengen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wengen”
- Norwegian: “Wengen”
- Persian: “ونگن (سوئیس)”
- Persian: “ونگن”
- Polish: “Wengen”
- Romanian: “Wengen”
- Russian: “Венген”
- Serbian: “Венген”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wengen”
- Slovenian: “Wengen”
- Spanish: “Wengen”
- Swedish: “Wengen”
- Swiss German: “Wenge”
- Swiss German: “Wengen”
- Thai: “เว็งเงิน”
- Turkish: “Wengen”
- Ukrainian: “Венген”
- Urdu: “وینگن”
- Western Panjabi: “ونگن”
- “Wengen BE”
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Places to explore: Wengiboden and Waldschluecht.
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