Zurich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and an international financial centre. Zurich is close to some excellent skiing resorts and many people headed for the Swiss Alps don't spend much time in Zurich itself, but you'd be missing a lot if you don't explore Zurich.Photo: Ikiwaner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Zürich HB.
Zürich HB
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It's hard for a station to get better than Zürich HB. Zürich HB is the main station of Zurich and is Switzerland's largest station. The station is huge: it's a hub for all kinds of long-distance trains from all over Europe, intercity and regional SBB trains, and forms the core of Zurich's S-Bahn and tram system.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Letzigrund Stadium and Zurich Opera House.
Letzigrund Stadium
Stadium
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Letzigrund is a stadium in Zurich, Switzerland, the home of the football clubs FC Zürich and Grasshopper Club Zürich, as well as the athletics club LC Zürich.
Zurich Opera House
Theater building
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The Zurich Opera House is an opera house in the Swiss city of Zurich. Located at the Sechseläutenplatz, it has been the home of the Zurich Opera since 1891, and also houses the Bernhard-Theater Zürich.
Cabaret Voltaire
Arts center
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Cabaret Voltaire is the birthplace of the Dada art movement, founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1916. It was founded by Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings as a cabaret intended for artistic and political purposes.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wiedikon and Aussersihl.
Wiedikon
Suburb
Wiedikon is a district in the Swiss city of Zurich. It corresponds to District number 3 and comprises the neighborhoods of Alt-Wiedikon, Sihlfeld and Friesenberg. Wiedikon was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893.
Aussersihl
Suburb
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Aussersihl is a district in the Swiss city of Zürich. Known officially as District number 4, the district is known as colloquially Chreis Cheib, cheib being the Zürich German word for an animal cadaver.
Schwamendingen
Suburb
Schwamendingen is a district in the Swiss city of Zürich. Formerly an independent community, it was incorporated into Zurich in 1934 to build district number 12.
Zurich
- Type: City with 443,000 residents
- Description: most populous city in Switzerland and capital of the canton of Zurich
- Also known as: “City of Zurich”, “Stadt Zürich”, “ZH”, “Zürich”, and “Zurich, Switzerland”
- Postal codes: 8000-8006, 8008, 8022, 8024, 8027, 8031, 8032, 8034, 8036-8038, 8040-8042, 8044-8053, 8055, 8057, 8063, 8064, and 8070
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, cantonal capital of Switzerland, college town, largest city, big city, and locality
- Location: Canton of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.3744° or 47° 22′ 28″ northLongitude
8.541° or 8° 32′ 28″ eastPopulation
443,000Elevation
429 metres (1,407 feet)IATA airport code
ZRHUnited Nations Location Code
CH ZRHOpen location code
8FVC9GFR+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 240025182OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2657896Wikidata ID
Q72
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Zurich” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Zürich”
- Albanian: “Cyrih”
- Albanian: “Zyrih”
- Albanian: “Zyrihu”
- Amharic: “ዙሪክ”
- Arabic: “زيورخ”
- Aragonese: “Zúrich”
- Armenian: “Ցյուրիխ”
- Arpitan: “Tsurique”
- Asturian: “Zúrich”
- Azerbaijani: “Sürix”
- Balinese: “Zürich”
- Bashkir: “Цюрих”
- Basque: “Zurich”
- Basque: “Zürich”
- Bavarian: “Zirich”
- Belarusian: “Цюрых”
- Bengali: “জুরিখ”
- Bhojpuri: “जूरिख”
- Bhojpuri: “ज्युरिख”
- Bhojpuri: “ज्यूरिख”
- Bhojpuri: “ज़्यूरिख़”
- Bhojpuri: “ज्यूरिष”
- Bosnian: “Zürich”
- Breton: “Zürich”
- Bulgarian: “Цюрих”
- Burmese: “ဇူးရစ်ချ်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Ciutat de Zúric”
- Catalan: “Zuric”
- Catalan: “Zúric”
- Cebuano: “Zürich (kapital sa kanton)”
- Cebuano: “Zürich”
- Central Bikol: “Zurich”
- Central Kurdish: “زوریخ”
- Central Kurdish: “زیورخ”
- Chavacano: “Zurich”
- Chechen: “Цуьрих”
- Chechen: “Цюрих”
- Chinese: “Zürich”
- Chinese: “苏黎世”
- Chinese: “蘇黎世”
- Chuvash: “Цюрих”
- Crimean Tatar: “Tsürih”
- Croatian: “Zürich”
- Czech: “Curych”
- Dagbani: “Zurich”
- Danish: “ZH”
- Danish: “Zürich”
- Dimli (individual language): “Zurix”
- Dotyali: “ज्युरिक”
- Dutch: “Zurich”
- Dutch: “Zürich”
- Eastern Mari: “Цӱрих”
- Egyptian Arabic: “زوريخ”
- Esperanto: “Zuriko”
- Estonian: “Zürich”
- Extremaduran: “Zurich”
- Faroese: “Zürich”
- Fijian: “Zuriki”
- Finnish: “Zürich”
- French: “ville de Zurich”
- French: “Zuerich”
- French: “Zurich”
- French: “Zürich”
- Galician: “Zúric”
- Galician: “Zürich”
- Georgian: “ციურიხი”
- German: “Stadt Zürich”
- German: “Zuerich”
- German: “Zürich”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Zürich”
- Greek: “Ζυρίχη”
- Gujarati: “જ્યૂરિચ”
- Haitian: “Zirik”
- Hakka Chinese: “Zürich”
- Hausa: “Zurich”
- Hawaiian: “Kuki”
- Hebrew: “ציריך”
- Hindi: “ज़्यूरिख़”
- Hungarian: “Zürich”
- Icelandic: “Zürich”
- Ido: “Zürich”
- Iloko: “Zürich”
- Inari Sami: “Zürich”
- Indonesian: “Zurich”
- Indonesian: “Zürich”
- Interlingua: “Zurich”
- Interlingua: “Zürich”
- Interlingue: “Zúrich”
- Irish: “Zürich”
- Italian: “Zurigo”
- Japanese: “ズーリッヒ”
- Japanese: “チューリッヒ”
- Japanese: “チューリッヒ市”
- Japanese: “チューリヒ”
- Javanese: “Zurich”
- Javanese: “Zürich”
- Kabyle: “Zurix”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Zurich”
- Kannada: “ಜ್ಯೂರಿಕ್”
- Kannada: “ಜ್ಯೂರಿಚ್”
- Kannada: “ಝ್ಯೂರಿಖ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Cyurix”
- Kazakh: “Цюрих қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Цюрих”
- Kirghiz: “Цюрих”
- Korean: “취리히”
- Kotava: “Zürich”
- Kurdish: “Zurîx”
- Ladin: “Turitg”
- Ladin: “Zurich”
- Ladino: “Zurich”
- Latin: “Tigurum”
- Latin: “Turicum”
- Latvian: “Cīrihe”
- Ligurian: “Zurïgo”
- Limburgan: “Zeurich”
- Lingala: “Tsúri (engumba)”
- Lingala: “Tsúri”
- Lithuanian: “Ciurichas”
- Lombard: “Zürigh”
- Low German: “Zürich”
- Lower Sorbian: “Zürich”
- Luxembourgish: “Stad Zürich”
- Luxembourgish: “Zürech”
- Luxembourgish: “Zürich”
- Macedonian: “Цирих”
- Malagasy: “Zürich”
- Malay: “Zurich”
- Malay: “Zürich”
- Malayalam: “സൂറിച്ച്”
- Maltese: “Zurich”
- Maltese: “Zürich”
- Marathi: “झ्युरिक”
- Mazanderani: “زوریخ”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Sŭ-là̤-sié”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Zürich”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Zürich”
- Mingrelian: “ციურიხი”
- Mongolian: “Цюрих хот”
- Mongolian: “Цюрих”
- Nauru: “Zürich”
- Navajo: “Beʼekʼid Hóneezíbąąh”
- Neapolitan: “Zurigo”
- Nepali: “ज्युरिक”
- Northern Frisian: “Zürich”
- Northern Sami: “Zürich”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zürich”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zürich”
- Norwegian: “Zürich”
- Novial: “Zürich”
- Nyanja: “Zürich”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Zuric”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܙܝܘܪܚ”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܬܣܝܪܝܟ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Turic”
- Oromo: “Zurich”
- Ossetian: “Цюрих”
- Panjabi: “ਜਿਊਰਿਖ”
- Panjabi: “ਜ਼ਿਊਰਿਖ”
- Papiamento: “Zurich”
- Pedi: “Zürich”
- Pennsylvania German: “Zurich”
- Persian: “زوریخ”
- Pfaelzisch: “Zirich”
- Pfaelzisch: “Zürich”
- Piemontese: “Zurigh”
- Polish: “Miasto Zurychu”
- Polish: “ZH”
- Polish: “Zurych”
- Portuguese: “Zurique”
- Pushto: “څوریخ”
- Quechua: “Zürich”
- Romanian: “ZH”
- Romanian: “Zurich”
- Romanian: “Zürich”
- Romansh: “Turi”
- Romansh: “Turich”
- Romansh: “Turitg.”
- Romansh: “turitg”
- Romansh: “Turitg”
- Rundi: “Zurich”
- Russian: “Цюрих”
- Rusyn: “Цюрих”
- Scots: “Zurich”
- Scots: “Zürich”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Zürich”
- Serbian: “ZH”
- Serbian: “Град Цирих”
- Serbian: “Зурих”
- Serbian: “Цирих”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zürich”
- Sicilian: “Zuricu”
- Sicilian: “Zurìcu”
- Silesian: “Zürich”
- Sindhi: “زيورخ”
- Sinhala: “සූරිච්”
- Skolt Sami: “Zürich”
- Slovak: “Zürich”
- Slovenian: “Zürich”
- Somali: “Zurich”
- South Azerbaijani: “زوریخ”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Zúrich”
- Spanish: “Zúrich (Suiza)”
- Spanish: “Zúrich”
- Sundanese: “Zürich”
- Swahili: “Zurich”
- Swahili: “Zürich”
- Swedish: “Zürich”
- Swiss German: “Stadt Züri”
- Swiss German: “Stadt Zürich”
- Swiss German: “Züri”
- Swiss German: “Zürich”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Zürich”
- Tagalog: “Zürich”
- Tajik: “Зюрих”
- Tajik: “Тсюрих”
- Tajik: “Цюрих”
- Tamil: “சூரிக்கு”
- Tamil: “ஜூரிக்”
- Tatar: “Tsürix”
- Tatar: “Сүрих”
- Telugu: “జ్యూరిక్”
- Thai: “ซือริช”
- Thai: “ซูริก”
- Tosk Albanian: “Zürich”
- Tulu: “ಜ್ಯೂರಿಕ್”
- Turkish: “Stadt Zürich”
- Turkish: “Turicum”
- Turkish: “Ville de Zurich”
- Turkish: “ZH”
- Turkish: “Zuerich”
- Turkish: “Zurich”
- Turkish: “Zürich”
- Turkish: “Zurigo”
- Turkish: “Zürih”
- Turkmen: “Zýurih”
- Udmurt: “Цюрих”
- Uighur: “سيۇرىخ”
- Ukrainian: “Цюрих”
- Upper Sorbian: “Zürich”
- Urdu: “زیورخ”
- Uzbek: “Syurix”
- Venetian: “Zurigo”
- Veps: “Cürih”
- Vietnamese: “Zürich”
- Vlax Romani: “Zürich”
- Volapük: “Zürich”
- Waray (Philippines): “Zurich”
- Welsh: “Zürich”
- Western Armenian: “Զիւրիխ”
- Western Frisian: “Zürich”
- Western Panjabi: “زیورچ”
- Wolof: “Zurich”
- Wu Chinese: “苏黎世”
- Yakut: “Цүрих”
- Yiddish: “ציריך”
- Yoruba: “Zürich”
- Yue Chinese: “蘇黎世”
- “Zurich”
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