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Spiez
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Spiez () is a town and municipality on the shore of Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss canton of Bern. It is part of the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district. Besides the town of Spiez, the municipality also includes the settlements of Einigen, Hondrich, Faulensee, and Spiezwiler.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Spiez
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Spiez.JPG
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- town and municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Spiez COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Spiez Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Frutigen-Niedersimmental
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3700
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0768
- Swiss town.area
- 16.78
- Swiss town.elevation
- 628
- Swiss town.elevation_description
- Railway station
- Swiss town.population
- 12417
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2011
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2011
- Swiss town.mayor
- Franz Arnold
- Swiss town.mayor_asof
- 2002
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Spiez
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of Berne
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 12812
- Area
- 16.69
- Elevation
- 607
- Body of water
- Lake Thun
- Shares border with
- Aeschi bei Spiez
- Official website
- www.spiez.ch
- Image
- Spiez.JPG
- Licence plate code
- BE
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- Commons category
- Spiez
- twinned administrative body
- Prachatice
- topic's main category
- Category:Spiez
- postal code
- 3700
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/768
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Sights
- Heritage sites of national significance
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
- Education
- Crime
- Transport
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
Spiez () is a town and municipality on the shore of Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss canton of Bern. It is part of the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district. Besides the town of Spiez, the municipality also includes the settlements of Einigen, Hondrich, Faulensee, and Spiezwiler.
The official language of Spiez is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Spiez” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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