Bernese Highlands
The southern end of canton Berne includes some of the tallest and most famous peaks in Switzerland including the Jungfrau and the Eiger, known as the Berner Oberland.Photo: Ximonic, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Popular Destinations
Thun
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Thun is a small city in the Bernese Highlands of Bern Canton, Switzerland.
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Lauterbrunnen
Lauterbrunnen is a village in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, with a population of 2290 in 2018.
Meiringen
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Meiringen is a town in the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland. with a population in 2020 of 4666.
Gstaad
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Gstaad is a mountain resort in the Bernese Highlands in Switzerland.
Spiez
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Spiez is a town and municipality on the shore of Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss canton of Bern.
Brienz
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Brienz is located in the Bernese Oberland area of Switzerland at the opposite end of Brienzersee to Interlaken.
Wengen
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Wengen is an Alpine resort in the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland.
Frutigen
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Frutigen is a town of 6,900 people in the Swiss Canton of Berne and the site of the northern portal of the Lötschberg-Base-Tunnel that opened for railway traffic in 2007.
Mürren
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Mürren is a mountain village in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, with a resident population of 155 but hundreds of seasonal workers and 2000 hotel guests.
Kleine Scheidegg
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Kleine Scheidegg is a tiny resort in the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland.
Gimmelwald
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Gimmelwald is a picturesque hamlet in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland.
Bernese Highlands
- Type: Area
- Description: higher part of the canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Category: region
- Location: Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
46.6703° or 46° 40' 13" northLongitude of centre
7.8347° or 7° 50' 5" eastElevation
566 metres (1,857 feet)GeoNames ID
6942179Wikidata ID
Q475403Bernese Highlands Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Bernese Oberland
- Belarusian: Бэрнскае высакагор’е
- Catalan: Oberland bernès
- Chinese: 伯尔尼台地
- Chinese: 伯尔尼高地
- Dutch: Berner Oberland
- Dutch: Bernese Oberland
- English: Berner Oberland
- English: Bernese Oberland
- Esperanto: Berna Oberlando
- Finnish: Bernin Oberland
- French: Oberland bernois
- German: Berner Oberland
- Greek: Βερνικές Άλπεις
- Hebrew: הרמה הברנית
- Hungarian: Berni-felvidék
- Italian: Oberland Bernese
- Japanese: ベルナー・オーバーラント
- Japanese: ベルナー高地
- Korean: 베르너 오버란트
- Macedonian: Бернер Оберланд
- Macedonian: Бернско Горје
- Norwegian: Berner Oberland
- Norwegian Bokmål: Berner Oberland
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Berner Oberland
- Polish: Berner Oberland
- Polish: Oberland Berneński
- Portuguese: Oberland Bernês
- Romanian: Berner Oberland
- Romansh: Part sura bernaisa
- Spanish: Oberland
- Spanish: Oberland bernes
- Spanish: Oberland bernés
- Swedish: Berner Oberland
- Swiss German: Bärner Oberland
- Thai: แบร์เนอร์โอเบอร์ลันท์
- Tosk Albanian: Berner Oberland
- Turkish: Bern Oberlandı
- Ukrainian: Бернське високогір'я
- Venetian: Oberland Bernese
- Vietnamese: Cao nguyên Bern
- Waray (Philippines): Bernese Oberland
- Oberland bernese
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Bernese Highlands. Photo: Ximonic, CC BY-SA 3.0.