Gampelen
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Gampelen () is a municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Gampelen should not be confused with the municipality Gampel in the canton of Valais.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Gampelen
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Gampelen COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Gampelen Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Seeland
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3236
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0495
- Swiss town.area
- 10.80
- Swiss town.elevation
- 436
- Swiss town.website
- gampelen.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Peter Dietrich
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Gals, Ins, Laténa (NE), Tschugg
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Gampelen.JPG
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Gampelen
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of Berne
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 963
- Area
- 10.6
- Elevation
- 427
- Body of water
- Lake Neuchâtel
- Official website
- www.gampelen.ch
- Image
- Gampelen.JPG
- Dialing code
- 032
- Licence plate code
- BE
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- Commons category
- Gampelen
- postal code
- 3236
- P8168
- Blackalicious
- native label
- Gampelen
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/495
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Heritage sites of national significance
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
- Education
- Penitentiary of Witzwil
- See also
- References
- External links
Gampelen () is a municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Gampelen should not be confused with the municipality Gampel in the canton of Valais.
==History== Gampelen is first mentioned in 1179 as Champion and again in 1228 as Champlun.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gampelen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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