Zermatt

Zermatt is one of the most famous mountain resorts in , and attracts people from around the world. Located in the German-speaking part of , its most popular sight is the iconic , one of Switzerland's most famous mountains.
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  • Type: Town with 5,790 residents
  • Description: municipality in Visp district, canton of Valais, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Dzèrmate”, “Gèrmate”, “Praborgne”, “Zermatt VS”, “Zmutt”, “Ζερμάτ”, “זרמט”, “策馬特”, and “策马特”
  • Postal code: 3920
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Zermatt GGB railway station and Zermatt railway station.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the municipality of Zermatt, in the canton of Valais. It is the northern terminus of 1,000 mm metre gauge Gornergrat Railway and is served by local trains only.

Railway station
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is a metre gauge railway station serving the car-free mountaineering and ski resort of Zermatt, in the Canton of , .

Museum
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The is a cultural-natural in Zermatt whose main theme is the . 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.

Hamlet
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is a small village in the municipality of Zermatt, , , situated at 1936 m in the Valley west of Zermatt. The village chapel is dedicated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria, patroness of the Valais.

Locality
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is a locality.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet in the municipality of Zermatt in the canton of . 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 mountain.

Zermatt

Latitude
46.0212° or 46° 1′ 16″ north
Longitude
7.7493° or 7° 44′ 57″ east
Population
5,790
Elevation
1,608 metres (5,276 feet)
IATA airport code
QZB
UN/LOCODE
CH ZER
Open location code
8FR92PCX+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 80387968
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2657928
Wiki­data 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: “Prât-Borgno”
  • Basque: “Zermatt”
  • Bengali: “সেরম্যাট”
  • Bulgarian: “Цермат”
  • Catalan: “Zermatt”
  • Cebuano: “Zermatt”
  • Chinese: “采尔马特”
  • Chinese: “采爾馬特”
  • Czech: “Zermatt”
  • Danish: “Zermatt”
  • Dutch: “Zermatt”
  • Esperanto: “Zermatt”
  • Estonian: “Zermatt”
  • Finnish: “Zermatt”
  • French: “Zermatt”
  • Galician: “Zermatt”
  • Georgian: “ცერმატი”
  • German: “Zermatt”
  • Greek: “Τσερμάτ”
  • Hebrew: “צרמט”
  • Hungarian: “Zermatt”
  • Indonesian: “Zermatt”
  • Irish: “Zermatt”
  • Italian: “Zermatt”
  • Japanese: “ツェルマット”
  • Kazakh: “Церматт”
  • Korean: “체르마트”
  • Latin: “Pratobornum”
  • 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”
  • Slovak: “Zermatt”
  • Slovenian: “Zermatt”
  • Spanish: “Zermatt”
  • Swedish: “Zermatt”
  • Swiss German: “Zermatt”
  • Thai: “แซร์มัท”
  • Turkish: “Zermatt”
  • Ukrainian: “Церматт”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Zermatt”
  • Urdu: “زرمات”
  • Venetian: “Zermatt”
  • Volapük: “Zermatt”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Zermatt”
  • Welsh: “Zermatt”
  • Western Panjabi: “زرمات”
  • Wu Chinese: “采尔马特”
  • “Zermatt”

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