Köniz

Also known as Köniz BE, Koniz, Koeniz, villa Chunicis

Köniz (, ) is a statistical town (though residents still regard it as a village) and a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district right on the southern border to Bern in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The municipality of Köniz as a single settlement would belong to the 15 most populous towns in Switzerland. It is also part of the larger agglomeration of Bern of about 400,000 inhabitants.

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Köniz is a municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, located just south of the city of Bern, that is officially classified as a statistical town but is still considered a village by its residents. Although technically a single settlement, Köniz would rank among Switzerland's 15 most populous towns and forms part of the greater Bern metropolitan area of approximately 400,000 people.

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Swiss town.subject_name: Köniz
Swiss town.image_photo: Koeniz Schloss.jpg
Swiss town.municipality_type: municipality
Swiss town.imagepath_flag: CHE Köniz Flag.svg
Swiss town.imagepath_coa: CHE Köniz COA.svg
Swiss town.canton: Bern
Swiss town.iso code region: CH-BE
Swiss town.district: Bern-Mittelland
Swiss town.postal_code: 3098
Swiss town.municipality_code: 0355
Swiss town.area: 51.2
Swiss town.elevation: 572
Swiss town.website: www.koeniz.ch
Swiss town.mayor: Tanja Bauer
Swiss town.mayor_party: SP
Swiss town.mayor_title: Gemeindepräsidentin
Swiss town.list_of_mayors: List of mayors of Köniz
Swiss town.executive_name: Gemeinderat

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Köniz
Population: 42958
Area: 51.01
Elevation: 651
Official website: www.koeniz.ch
Image: Koeniz Schloss.jpg
Dialing code: 031
Licence plate code: BE

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Commons category: Köniz
postal code: 3174
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external data available at URL: geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/355

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History
Geography
Coat of arms
Demographics
Heritage sites of national significance
Politics
Economy
Religion
Education
Transportation
Sport
Notable people
Villages
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The official language of Köniz is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.