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Sion is the capital city of Valais, a canton (administrative region) in Switzerland. It matters as the main governmental and cultural hub for the Valais region, located in the Swiss Alps.
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Official website
Ville de Sion
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Canton of Valais
- Official name
- Sitten
- Demonym
- Sédunoise
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Sion District
- Official language
- French
- Population
- 37154
- Area
- 29.81
- Elevation
- 515
- Capital of
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Sion
- Official website
- www.sion.ch
- Image
- Sion depuis Nax - 2022.jpg
- Dialing code
- 027
- Licence plate code
- VS
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- Commons category
- Sion
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Sion
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Sion
- twinned administrative body
- Philippi
- topic's main category
- Category:Sion, Switzerland
- replaces
- Salins
- postal code
- 1950
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Sion, Switzerland
- owner of
- Stade de Tourbillon
- P8168
- Barbarossa Cave
- different from
- Sion
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/6266
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
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Encyclopedic overview
Sion ( French pronunciation: [sjɔ̃] ; German: Sitten [ˈzɪtn̩] ; former Italian: Seduno; Latin: Sedunum) is a Swiss town situated in the Rhône valley, a municipality, and the capital of the canton of Valais and of the district of Sion. As of December 2020 it had a population of 34,978 (known as Sédunois(es)).
On 17 January 1968, the former municipality of Bramois merged into the municipality of Sion. On 1 January 2013, the former municipality of Salins merged into the municipality of Sion, and on 1 January 2017, Les Agettes did the same.
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