Riddes
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Riddes is a municipality in the district of Martigny in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Riddes
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Riddes.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Riddes COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Riddes Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Valais
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-VS
- Swiss town.district
- Martigny
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 1908
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 6139
- Swiss town.area
- 23.9
- Swiss town.elevation
- 482
- Swiss town.population
- 2179
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2002
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2002
- Swiss town.website
- www.riddes.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Jean-Michel Gaillard
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Bagnes, Chamoson, Isérables, Leytron, Nendaz, Saillon, Saxon
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Commune de Riddes
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Martigny District
- Official language
- French
- Population
- 3133
- Area
- 23.9
- Elevation
- 499
- Body of water
- Rhône
- Official website
- www.riddes.ch
- Image
- Riddes depuis Le Bioley.jpg
- Dialing code
- 027
- Licence plate code
- VS
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- Commons category
- Riddes
- postal code
- 1908
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/6139
- native label
- Riddes
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Economy
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Riddes is a municipality in the district of Martigny in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
==History== Riddes is first mentioned in 1001 as Ride. It was previously known its German name Riden, though that is not used any more.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Riddes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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