Pieterlen
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Pieterlen () is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Pieterlen
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Pieterlen COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Pieterlen Flag.svg
- Swiss town.image_photo
- 2011-01-13 Pieterlen (Foto Dietrich Michael Weidmann) 093.JPG
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Biel/Bienne
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 2542
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0392
- Swiss town.area
- 8.3
- Swiss town.elevation
- 436
- Swiss town.website
- www.pieterlen.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Beat Rüfli
- Swiss town.mayor_party
- FDP.The Liberals
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Lengnau, Meinisberg, Safnern, Biel/Bienne, Vauffelin, Romont
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Pieterlen
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Büren District
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 4364
- Area
- 8.35
- Elevation
- 444
- Official website
- www.pieterlen.ch
- Image
- 2011-01-13 Pieterlen (Foto Dietrich Michael Weidmann) 093.JPG
- Dialing code
- 032
- Licence plate code
- BE
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- Commons category
- Pieterlen
- postal code
- 2542
- P8168
- Book
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/392
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Heritage sites of national significance
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
- Transport
- Education
- Further reading
- References
- External links
Pieterlen () is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
==History== Pieterlen is first mentioned in 1228 as Perla. In 1268 it was mentioned as Bieterlo.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pieterlen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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