Zermatt
Zermatt is one of the most famous mountain resorts in Switzerland, and attracts people from around the world. Located in the German-speaking part of Valais, its most popular sight is the iconic Matterhorn, one of Switzerland's most famous mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,790 residents
- Description: municipality in Visp district, canton of Valais, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Zermatt VS”
- Postal code: 3920
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Zermatt GGB railway station and Zermatt railway station.
Zermatt GGB railway station
Railway station
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Zermatt GGB railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Zermatt, in the Swiss canton of Valais. It is the northern terminus of 1,000 mm metre gauge Gornergrat Railway and is served by local trains only.
Zermatt railway station
Railway station
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Zermatt railway station is a metre gauge railway station serving the car-free mountaineering and ski resort of Zermatt, in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland.
Matterhorn Museum
Museum
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The Matterhorn Museum is a cultural-natural museum in Zermatt whose main theme is the Matterhorn. The museum is in the form of a reconstituted mountain village consisting of 14 houses, and relates the history and development of tourism in the Zermatt area, including the story of the first ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zmutt and Sunnegga.
Zmutt
Hamlet
Photo: DrTW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zmutt is a small village in the municipality of Zermatt, Valais, Switzerland, situated at 1936 m in the Zmutt Valley west of Zermatt. The village chapel is dedicated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria, patroness of the Valais.
Riffelalp
Hamlet
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Riffelalp is a hamlet in the municipality of Zermatt in the canton of Valais. It is located at a height of 2,222 metres above sea level, just above the tree line, approximately halfway between the town of Zermatt and the Gornergrat mountain.
Zermatt
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, carfree city, car-free place, and locality
- Location: Visp District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.0212° or 46° 1′ 16″ northLongitude
7.7493° or 7° 44′ 57″ eastPopulation
5,790Elevation
1,608 metres (5,276 feet)IATA airport code
QZBUnited Nations Location Code
CH ZEROpen location code
8FR92PCX+FPOpenStreetMap ID
node 80387968OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2657928Wikidata ID
Q27494
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Zermatt” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Zermatt”
- Albanian: “Zermatt”
- Arabic: “زيرمات”
- Armenian: “Ցերմատ”
- Arpitan: “Dzèrmate”
- Arpitan: “Gèrmate”
- Arpitan: “Prât-Borgno”
- Basque: “Zermatt”
- Bengali: “সেরম্যাট”
- Bulgarian: “Цермат”
- Catalan: “Zermatt”
- Cebuano: “Zermatt”
- Chinese: “策馬特”
- Chinese: “策马特”
- Chinese: “采尔马特”
- Chinese: “采爾馬特”
- Czech: “Zermatt”
- Danish: “Zermatt”
- Dutch: “Zermatt”
- Esperanto: “Zermatt”
- Estonian: “Zermatt”
- Finnish: “Zermatt”
- French: “Praborgne”
- French: “Zermatt”
- French: “Zmutt”
- Galician: “Zermatt”
- Georgian: “ცერმატი”
- German: “Praborgne”
- German: “Zermatt”
- Greek: “Ζερμάτ”
- Greek: “Τσερμάτ”
- Hebrew: “זרמט”
- Hebrew: “צרמט”
- Hungarian: “Zermatt”
- Indonesian: “Zermatt”
- Irish: “Zermatt”
- Italian: “Zermatt”
- Japanese: “ツェルマット”
- Kazakh: “Цермат”
- Kazakh: “Церматт”
- Korean: “체르마트”
- Latin: “Pratobornum”
- Latin: “Zermatt”
- Lithuanian: “Cerma”
- Lithuanian: “Cermatas”
- Lombard: “Zermatt”
- Luxembourgish: “Zermatt”
- Macedonian: “Цермат”
- Malay: “Zermatt”
- Neapolitan: “Zermatt”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zermatt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zermatt”
- Norwegian: “Zermatt”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Zermatt”
- Persian: “زرمات”
- Piemontese: “Zermatt”
- Polish: “Zermatt”
- Portuguese: “Zermatt”
- Romanian: “Zermatt”
- Romansh: “Zermatt”
- Russian: “Цермат”
- Russian: “Церматт”
- Scots: “Zermatt”
- Serbian: “Цермат”
- Sicilian: “Zermatt”
- Slovenian: “Zermatt”
- Spanish: “Zermatt”
- Swedish: “Zermatt”
- Swiss German: “Zermatt”
- Thai: “แซร์มัท”
- Tosk Albanian: “Zermatt”
- Turkish: “Zermatt”
- Ukrainian: “Церматт”
- Upper Sorbian: “Zermatt”
- Venetian: “Zermatt”
- Volapük: “Zermatt”
- Waray (Philippines): “Zermatt”
- Welsh: “Zermatt”
- Western Panjabi: “زرمات”
- Wu Chinese: “采尔马特”
- “Zermatt”
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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 “Zermatt”. Photo: Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble, CC BY 2.0.