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Pieterlen

municipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland
Administrative Area Municipality Of Switzerland Q67849

Facts

17 properties

Identity

Instance of
municipality of Switzerland
Official website
www.pieterlen.ch[9]
Official name
Pieterlen[25]

Location

Country
Switzerland[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 47.175°, 7.339°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Biel/Bienne administrative district, Büren District[3]

Population and size

Area
+8.3, +8.35[29][30]
Elevation above sea level
+436, +444[27][28]
Population
5.3k (3.1k–5.3k, n=38)[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 4,225 · 4,359 · 3,195 · 3,163 · 3,153 GeoNames 4,651 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
032[8]
Postal code
2542[6]
More facts +6
Contains settlement
Pieterlen[24]
List of monuments
list of cultural properties in Pieterlen[26]
Member of
SGV-ACS[2]
Official language
German[5]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory[31]
Vehicle registration plate code
BE[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Pieterlen en Pieterlen BE de Pieterlen BE fr Perles fr Pieterlen fr Pieterlen BE it Pieterlen BE ja ピーターレン ru Питерлен uk Пітерлен zh 皮特倫 zh-hans 皮特伦
🔖 Identifiers · 15
GND ID
4103381-4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
2011-01-13 Pieterlen (Foto Dietrich Michael Weidmann) 093.JPG ↗
External data available at URL
geo.ld.admin.ch
FactGrid item ID
Book
Freebase ID
/m/0dyl3f
GADM ID
CHE.6.5.12_1
GeoNames ID
7286797
HDS ID
000235
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1682605
Ortsnamen.ch ID
802000392
SPAP ID
p/e3764bf0-1284-4379-85a5-8c82f48e9d1a
Swiss Enterprise Identification Number
CHE-114.893.210
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Swiss municipality code
392
Topic's main category
Category:Pieterlen
Who's on First ID
101854157
📚 Sources · 1
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Edition
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 1
Pieterlen railway station
Country 1
Switzerland
FactGrid item ID 1
Book
Instance of 1
municipality of Switzerland
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Biel/Bienne administrative district
Official language 1
German
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
People who died here 1
Paul von Rohden‎
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Biel/Bienne administrative district
← Headquarters location 1
Peter Lang
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Summary

Pieterlen is a Municipality of Switzerland[1].

Related Entities

Switzerland WikiProject Govdirectory

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [2] ↑ . chgemeinden.ch. Retrieved . chgemeinden.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  19. [20] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . govdirectory.org. Retrieved . govdirectory.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23d ago · Horgner · 2026-10-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → 4,225, 4,359, 3,195 +35
    GND ID → 4103381-4
    "Created claim: Population: 5,255, mass upload (details)"
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