Zurich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland, with a population of some 435,000 in the city, and 1.3 million in the metro area. Zurich is on Lake Zurich, where the lake meets the river Limmat, in the north of Switzerland.Photo: Ikiwaner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: City with 443,000 residents
- Description: capital of the canton of Zürich, Switzerland
- Postal codes: 8000-8006, 8008, 8032, 8037, 8038, 8041, 8044-8053, 8055, 8057 and 8064
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Notable Places in the Area
Zurich Main Station
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Zürich Hauptbahnhof is the largest railway station in Switzerland and one of the busiest in Europe…
Zürich Opera House
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The Zürich Opera House is an opera house in the Swiss city of Zürich.
Cabaret Voltaire
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Cabaret Voltaire was the name of a short-lived artistic nightclub in Zürich, Switzerland in 1916.
Localities in the Area
Zurich
Latitude
47.3744° or 47° 22' 28" northLongitude
8.541° or 8° 32' 28" eastPopulation
443,000Elevation
429 metres (1,407 feet)IATA airport code
ZRHUnited Nations Location Code
CH ZRHOpen Location Code
8FVC9GFR+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 240025182OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2657896Wikidata ID
Q72Zurich Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Zurix
- Afrikaans: Zürich
- Akan: Zürich
- Albanian: Cyrih
- Albanian: Zyrih
- Albanian: Zyrihu
- Amharic: ዙሪክ
- Arabic: Zurich
- Arabic: زيورخ
- Aragonese: Zúrich
- Armenian: Զիւրիխ
- Armenian: Ցյուրիխ
- Arpitan: Tsurique
- Asturian: Zúrich
- Avaric: Zürich
- Azerbaijani: Sürix
- Balinese: Zürich
- Basque: Zurich
- Basque: Zürich
- Bavarian: Zirich
- Belarusian: Цюрых
- Bengali: জুরিখ
- Bhojpuri: ज़्यूरिख़
- Bhojpuri: जूरिख
- Bhojpuri: ज्युरिख
- Bhojpuri: ज्यूरिख
- Bhojpuri: ज्यूरिष
- Bosnian: Zürich
- Breton: Zürich
- Bulgarian: Цюрих
- Burmese: ဇူးရစ်ချ်မြို့
- Catalan: Ciutat de Zúric
- Catalan: Zuric
- Catalan: Zúric
- Cebuano: Zürich (kapital sa kanton)
- Cebuano: Zürich
- Central Bikol: Zurich
- Central Kurdish: زیورخ
- Central Kurdish: زیورێخ
- Chavacano: Zurich
- Chechen: Цуьрих
- Chechen: Цюрих
- Chinese: Zürich
- Chinese: 苏黎世
- Chinese: 蘇黎世
- Chuvash: Цюрих
- Crimean Tatar: Tsürih
- Croatian: Zürich
- Czech: Curych
- Dagbani: Zurich
- Danish: Zürich
- Dimli (individual language): Zurix
- Dotyali: ज्युरिक
- Dutch: Zurich
- Dutch: Zürich
- Eastern Mari: Цӱрих
- Egyptian Arabic: زوريخ
- English: City of Zurich
- English: Stadt Zürich
- English: ZH
- English: Zurich, Switzerland
- English: Zürich
- Esperanto: Zuriko
- Estonian: Zürich
- Extremaduran: Zurich
- Faroese: Zürich
- Finnish: Zürich
- French: Zuerich
- French: Zurich
- French: Zürich
- French: ville de Zurich
- Galician: Zúric
- Galician: Zürich
- Georgian: ციურიხი
- German: Stadt Zürich
- German: Zuerich
- German: Zürich
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Zürich
- Greek: Ζυρίχη
- Gujarati: જ્યૂરિચ
- Haitian: Zirik
- Hakka Chinese: Zürich
- Hausa: Zürich
- Hawaiian: Kuki
- Hebrew: ציריך
- Hindi: ज़्यूरिख़
- Hungarian: Zürich
- Icelandic: Zürich
- Ido: Zürich
- Iloko: Zürich
- Inari Sami: Zürich
- Indonesian: Zürich
- Interlingua: Zurico
- Interlingue: Zúrich
- Irish: Zürich
- Italian: Zurigo
- Japanese: チューリッヒ
- Javanese: Zürich
- Kabyle: Zurix
- Kannada: ಜ್ಯೂರಿಚ್
- Kannada: ಜ್ಯೂರಿಕ್
- Kannada: ಝ್ಯೂರಿಖ್
- Kazakh: Цюрих
- Kazakh: Цюрих қаласы
- Kirghiz: Цюрих
- Korean: 취리히
- Kotava: Zürich
- Kurdish: Zurîx
- Ladin: Turitg
- Ladin: Zurich
- Ladino: Zurich
- Lao: Zürich
- Latin: Turicum
- Latvian: Cīrihe
- Ligurian: Zurïgo
- Limburgan: Zeurich
- Lithuanian: Ciurichas
- Lombard: Zürigh
- Low German: Zürich
- Lower Sorbian: Zürich
- Luxembourgish: Zürich
- Macedonian: Цирих
- Malay: Zurich
- Malay: Zürich
- Malayalam: സൂറിച്ച്
- Maltese: Zurich
- Maltese: Zürich
- Marathi: झ्युरिक
- Min Dong Chinese: Sŭ-là̤-sié
- Min Dong Chinese: Zürich
- Min Nan Chinese: Zürich
- Mingrelian: ციურიხი
- Mongolian: Цюрих
- Mongolian: Цюрих хот
- Nauru: Zürich
- Navajo: Beʼekʼid Hóneezíbąąh
- Neapolitan: Zurigo
- Nepali: ज्युरिक
- Northern Frisian: Zürich
- Norwegian: Zürich
- Norwegian Bokmål: Zürich
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Zürich
- Novial: Zürich
- Nyanja: Zürich
- Occitan (post 1500): Zuric
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܙܝܘܪܚ
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܬܣܝܪܝܟ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Turic
- Ossetian: Цюрих
- Panjabi: ਜ਼ਿਊਰਿਖ
- Panjabi: ਜਿਊਰਿਖ
- Pedi: Zürich
- Pennsylvania German: Zurich
- Persian: زوریخ
- Pfaelzisch: Zirich
- Pfaelzisch: Zürich
- Piemontese: Zurigh
- Polish: Miasto Zurychu
- Polish: ZH
- Polish: Zurych
- Portuguese: Zurique
- Pushto: څوریخ
- Quechua: Zürich
- Romanian: Zürich
- Romansh: Turi
- Romansh: Turich
- Romansh: Turitg.
- Romansh: Turitg
- Romansh: turitg
- Rundi: Zurich
- Russian: Цюрих
- Rusyn: Цюрих
- Scots: Zurich
- Scots: Zürich
- Scottish Gaelic: Zürich
- Serbian: ZH
- Serbian: Град Цирих
- Serbian: Зурих
- Serbian: Цирих
- Serbo-Croatian: Zürich
- Sicilian: Zurìcu
- Silesian: Zürich
- Sinhala: සූරිච්
- Slovak: Zürich
- Slovenian: Zürich
- South Azerbaijani: زوریخ
- Spanish: Ciudad de Zúrich
- Spanish: Zúrich
- Spanish: Zúrich (Suiza)
- Sundanese: Zürich
- Swahili: Zürich
- Swedish: Zürich
- Swiss German: Züri
- Tagalog: Lungsod ng Zürich
- Tagalog: Zürich
- Tajik: Зюрих
- Tajik: Тсюрих
- Tamil: சூரிக்கு
- Tamil: ஜூரிக்
- Tatar: Tsürix
- Tatar: Сүрих
- Telugu: జ్యూరిక్
- Thai: ซือริช
- Thai: ซูริก
- Tosk Albanian: Zürich
- Tulu: ಜ್ಯೂರಿಕ್
- Turkish: Stadt Zürich
- Turkish: Turicum
- Turkish: Ville de Zurich
- Turkish: ZH
- Turkish: Zuerich
- Turkish: Zurich
- Turkish: Zurigo
- Turkish: Zürich
- Turkish: Zürih
- Turkmen: Zýurih
- Udmurt: Цюрих
- Uighur: سيۇرىخ
- Ukrainian: Цюрих
- Upper Sorbian: Zürich
- Urdu: زیورخ
- Uzbek: Syurix
- Venetian: Zurigo
- Veps: Cürih
- Vietnamese: Zürich
- Vlax Romani: Zürich
- Volapük: Zürich
- Waray (Philippines): Zurich
- Welsh: Zürich
- Western Armenian: Զիւրիխ
- Western Frisian: Zürich
- Western Panjabi: زیورچ
- Wolof: Zurich
- Wu Chinese: 苏黎世
- Yakut: Цүрих
- Yiddish: ציריך
- Yoruba: Zürich
- Yue Chinese: 蘇黎世
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