Meiringen
Meiringen is a town in the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland. with a population in 2020 of 4666. It's a winter sports and mountain hiking resort, best known for the Reichenbach Falls, scene of the fictional death of Sherlock Holmes and his arch-enemy Professor Moriarty.Photo: Thisisbossi, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Photo: Thisisbossi, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Village with 4,720 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Postal code: 3860
- Neighbors: Brienz and Grindelwald
Notable Places in the Area
Reichenbach Falls
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Reichenbach Falls are a waterfall cascade of seven steps on the stream called Rychenbach in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland.
Meiringen railway station
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Meiringen railway station is a railway station, in the town of Meiringen in the Swiss canton of Bern, and at the junction of two railway lines.
Localities in the Area
Schattenhalb
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Schattenhalb is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Innertkirchen
Photo: Falk Lademann, CC BY 2.0.
Innertkirchen is a village and municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Innertkirchen is situated 4 km southeast of Meiringen.
Meiringen
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Interlaken-Oberhasli, Canton of Bern, Bernese Highlands, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.7286° or 46° 43' 43" northLongitude
8.1871° or 8° 11' 14" eastPopulation
4,720Elevation
599 metres (1,965 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH MEIOpen Location Code
8FRCP5HP+CROpenStreetMap ID
node 60336653OpenStreetMap Feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2659700Wikidata ID
Q64123Meiringen Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Albanian: Meiringen
- Arabic: Meiringen
- Arabic: ميرينغن (سويسرا)
- Arabic: ميرينغن
- Armenian: Մայրինգեն
- Basque: Meiringen
- Belarusian: Майрынген
- Breton: Meiringen
- Catalan: Meiringen
- Cebuano: Meiringen (munisipyo)
- Cebuano: Meiringen
- Chinese: 迈林根
- Chinese: 麦林根
- Czech: Meiringen
- Danish: Meiringen
- Dutch: Meiringen
- English: Meiringen BE
- Esperanto: Meiringen
- Estonian: Meiringen
- Finnish: Meiringen
- French: Meiringen
- German: Meiringen
- Hebrew: מיירינגן
- Hungarian: Meiringen
- Indonesian: Meiringen
- Irish: Meiringen
- Italian: Meiringen
- Japanese: マイリンゲン
- Kazakh: Майринген
- Korean: 마이링엔
- Latin: Meiringen
- Lombard: Meiringen
- Malay: Meiringen
- Norwegian: Meiringen
- Norwegian: Meyringen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Meiringen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Meiringen
- Occitan (post 1500): Meiringen
- Persian: مرینگن
- Piemontese: Meiringen
- Polish: Meiringen
- Portuguese: Meiringen
- Pushto: مای رینګن
- Romanian: Meiringen
- Romansh: Meiringen
- Russian: Майринген
- Russian: Мейринген
- Serbo-Croatian: Meiringen
- Silesian: Meiringen
- Spanish: Meiringen
- Swedish: Meiringen
- Swiss German: Meiringe
- Tosk Albanian: Meiringen
- Turkish: Meiringen
- Ukrainian: Майрінген
- Upper Sorbian: Meiringen
- Venetian: Meiringen
- Vietnamese: Meiringen
- Volapük: Meiringen
- Waray (Philippines): Meiringen
- Welsh: Meiringen
- 마이링겐
Other Places Named Meiringen
Localities in the Area
- SteinmühleNeighbourhood
- SteinNeighbourhood
- SchwendiLocality
- HaselholzNeighbourhood
- SchrändliNeighbourhood
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. 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 Meiringen. Photo: Thisisbossi, CC BY-SA 2.5.