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Grafschaft

former municipality of the Swiss canton of Valais
AdministrativeArea former_municipality_of_switzerland Q68477

Facts

14 properties

Identity

Instance of
former municipality of Switzerland
Official website
www.grafschaft.ch[12]
Official name
Grafschaft, Selkingen[17][18]

Location

Country
Switzerland[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 46.450°, 8.217°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Goms[2]
Shares border with
Bellwald, Blitzingen, Ernen, Fieschertal, Reckingen-Gluringen[4][5][6][7][8]

Population and size

Area
+22.6[20]
Elevation above sea level
+1312[19]

Codes

Local dialing code
027[11]
Postal code
3989[9]
More facts +3
Licence plate code
VS[10]
Replaced by
Goms[16]
Replaces
Selkingen, Biel, Ritzingen[13][14][15]
🏷️ Also known as
en Grafschaft en Grafschaft VS de Selkingen hu Grofschaft hu Grafschaft VS hu Selkingen ms Grafschaft, Switzerland sv Grafschaft (kommun) zh 格拉夫沙夫特
🔖 Identifiers · 12
GND ID
7569379-3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Ortsansicht Biel.jpg ↗
External data available at URL
geo.ld.admin.ch
FactGrid item ID
Usedom Island Nature Park
Freebase ID
/m/0h391t
GeoNames ID
7285955
HDS ID
047281
SPAP ID
p/bc5bfc65-9936-4134-b4c8-f4e50b354bee
Swiss municipality code
6073
Topic's main category
Category:Grafschaft
VerbaAlpina ID
A61123
Who's on First ID
404568493
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 2 statements · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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194 2026-09-26 A/ADM3H · CH GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Europe/Zurich 2026-09-26 A/ADM3H · CH GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 5
Bellwald, Ernen, Fieschertal, Reckingen-Gluringen, Blitzingen
← Shares border with 5
Bellwald, Ernen, Fieschertal, Reckingen-Gluringen, Blitzingen
Replaces 3
Biel, Selkingen, Ritzingen
← Replaced by 3
Biel, Selkingen, Ritzingen
Country 1
Switzerland
FactGrid item ID 1
Usedom Island Nature Park
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Goms
Replaced by 1
Goms
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Goms District
← Replaces 1
Goms
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Summary

Grafschaft is a former municipality of Switzerland[1].

Related Entities

Switzerland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Historicized municipal directory of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Historicized municipal directory of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Historicized municipal directory of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . Historicized municipal directory of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . swissNAMES3D. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: 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. 26d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    GND ID → 7569379-3
    Wikipedia languages → ['ca', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fr', 'it', 'lmo', 'ms', 'nl', 'nn', 'pms', 'pt',
    Official name → {'lang': 'und', 'text': 'Grafschaft'}, {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Selkingen'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||mul */ default label, official name from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  2. 13w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → http://www.grafschaft.ch
    Country → —
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Goms
    VerbaAlpina ID → A61123
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ VerbaAlpina ID: A61123, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/263620|batch #263620]]"
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