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Murten
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Murten () or Morat (; ) is a bilingual municipality and a city in the See district of the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Murten/Morat
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Stadt-murten.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- City
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Murten Flag.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Murten FR COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Fribourg
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-FR
- Swiss town.district
- See
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3280
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2275
- Swiss town.area
- 12.02
- Swiss town.elevation
- 453
- Swiss town.website
- www.murten-morat.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Christian Brechbühl
- Swiss town.mayor_asof
- March 2014
- Swiss town.mayor_party
- FDP/PRD
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Stadtammann / Syndic
- Swiss town.list_of_mayors
- List of mayors of Murten
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Official name
- Murten
- Demonym
- Moratois
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- See District
- Population
- 8278
- Area
- 36.48
- Elevation
- 453
- Body of water
- Lake Murten
- Capital of
- See District
- Shares border with
- Mont-Vully
- Official website
- www.murten-morat.ch
- Image
- Murten (Suiza). Tejados 2.jpg
- Dialing code
- 026
- Licence plate code
- FR
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- Murten
- Commons category
- Murten
- topic's main category
- Category:Murten
- postal code
- 3280
- replaces
- Altavilla
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/2275
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (12)
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Heritage sites of national significance
- World heritage site
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
- Weather
- Education
- Transportation
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Murten () or Morat (; ) is a bilingual municipality and a city in the See district of the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
It is located on the southern shores of Lake Morat (also known as Lake Murten). Morat is situated between Neuchâtel and Fribourg and is the capital of the See/Lac District of the canton of Fribourg. It is one of the municipalities with a majority (about 75%) of German speakers in the predominantly French-speaking Canton of Fribourg.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Murten” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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