Thun (French: Thoune) is a city and municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland with about 43,783 inhabitants (around 90,000 in the agglomeration), as of 31 December 2013.
Population: 42,136
Latitude: 46° 45' 4.25" N
Longitude: 7° 37' 17.98" E
The Bernese Oberland (Bernese Highlands) is the higher part of the canton of Bern, Switzerland, in the southern end of the canton: The area around Lake Thun and Lake Brienz, and the valleys of the Bernese Alps (thus, the inhabitable parts from appro…
Bern Airport (IATA: BRN, ICAO: LSZB / LSMB), formerly Regionalflugplatz Bern-Belp in German, is an airport serving Bern, the de facto capital of Switzerland. The airport is located within the town limits of Belp, and features flights to some Europea…
Onyx is a Swiss intelligence gathering system maintained by the Federal Intelligence Service - Nachrichtendienst des Bundes (NDB). The costs of the system are not public, but the amount of 100 million Swiss francs has been mentioned several times, i…
Lake Thun (German: Thunersee) is an Alpine lake in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland.
The Niesen is a mountain of the Bernese Alps in Switzerland.
Interlaken West is a railway station in the resort town of Interlaken, in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is on the Thunersee line of the BLS AG, and is one of two stations in the town, the other being Interlaken Ost.
Thun District in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland was created on 1 January 2010. It is part of the Oberland administrative region.
The Kander is a river in Switzerland. It is 44 kilometres (27 mi) long and has a watershed of 1,126 square kilometres (435 sq mi). Originally a tributary of the Aar river, with a confluence downstream of the city of Thun, since 1714 it has flowed in…
Oberland (German for Highlands) was the name of a canton of the Helvetic Republic (1798–1803), corresponding to the area of the Bernese Oberland, with its capital at Thun.
The Niederhorn (elevation 1963 metres) is a peak of the Emmental Alps in the Bernese Oberland near Beatenberg. It is the peak farthest west in the Güggis ridge.
This is a list of museums in Bern, Switzerland.
Observatorium Zimmerwald (Zimmerwald Observatory) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Astronomisches Institut der Universität Bern (Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern).
The Tropenhaus (English: Tropic House) in Frutigen, Switzerland, is a commercial project using geothermal energy from hot water flowing out of the Lötschberg base tunnel for the production of exotic fruit, sturgeon meat and caviar in a tropical gree…
The Stockhorn is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking the region of Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland.
The rural palace of Lohn in Kehrsatz, near Bern, Switzerland, is the official estate of the Swiss Federal Council, the government of Switzerland.
The Wiriehorn is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, located south of Zwischenflüh in the Bernese Oberland.
The river Simme is a tributary of the river Kander in the Bernese Oberland in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Schadau Castle (German: Schloss Schadau) is a castle on the south side of the Aar near Lake Thun in the city of Thun, Canton Bern, Switzerland.