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Biel

village and former municipality in Goms in the canton of Valais, Switzerland
Place former_municipality_of_switzerland Q667757

Facts

12 properties

Designation

Instance of
former municipality of Switzerland, neighborhood[5]
Heritage designation
Swiss townscape worthy of protection[8]

Location

Country
Switzerland[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 46.455°, 8.219°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Goms[2]
More facts +7
Different from
Biel/Bienne[10]
Elevation above sea level
+1312[11]
Licence plate code
VS[6]
Located in or next to body of water
Rhône[4]
Official name
Biel VS[9]
P14976
42516BDA-06A2-47E6-A0B6-EC68DBDF506C[12]
Replaced by
Grafschaft[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Biel en Biel (Grafschaft) de Biel (Grafschaft) fr Biel (Grafschaft) it Biel (Grafschaft) nl Biel VS
🔖 Identifiers · 12
VIAF cluster ID
245812895
GND ID
4363005-4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Ortsansicht Biel.jpg ↗
FactGrid item ID
Björgvin Halldórsson
Freebase ID
/m/026dsdf
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2551273
GeoNames ID
2661514
HDS ID
002683
RKD thesaurus ID
24293
SPAP ID
p/a374f506-c636-468d-b31a-5d11d6da4dc7
Swiss municipality code
6053
Who's on First ID
1343988965

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🔗 Connections
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
Country 1
Switzerland
Different from 1
Biel/Bienne
FactGrid item ID 1
Björgvin Halldórsson
Instance of 1
neighborhood
Located in or next to body of water 1
Rhône
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Goms
Replaced by 1
Grafschaft
← Different from 1
Biel/Bienne
← Replaces 1
Grafschaft
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Summary

Biel is a former municipality of Switzerland[1].

Related Entities

Switzerland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Historicized municipal directory of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . gisos.bak.admin.ch. Retrieved . gisos.bak.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . swissNAMES3D. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . swissNAMES3D. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 19d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14976 → 42516BDA-06A2-47E6-A0B6-EC68DBDF506C
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14976: 42516BDA-06A2-47E6-A0B6-EC68DBDF506C, swissNAMES3D ID from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  2. 26d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['commons', 'de', 'en', 'fr', 'it', 'nl', 'pnb', 'simple', 'sv']
    Official name → {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Biel VS'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Official name: Biel VS, official name from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  3. 15w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 46.455015, 'lon': 8.21923}
    Replaced by → Grafschaft
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Goms
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/43521|batch #43521]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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