Val-de-Charmey
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Val-de-Charmey () is a municipality in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Cerniat and Charmey merged into the municipality of Val-de-Charmey.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Val-de-Charmey
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Charmey.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Charmey village
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Val-de-Charmey Blason.png
- Swiss town.canton
- Fribourg
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-FR
- Swiss town.district
- Gruyère
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 1637, 1654
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2163
- Swiss town.area
- 112.15
- Swiss town.population
- 2295
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2011
- Swiss town.website
- http://www.val-de-charmey.ch
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Syndic
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Bas-Intyamon, Botterens, Broc, Châtel-sur-Montsalvens, Corbières, Château-d’Oex (VD), Crésuz, Grandvillard, Gruyères, Hauteville, Jaun, La Roche, Plaffeien, Plasselb, Rougemont (VD), Saanen (BE)
- Swiss town.twintowns
- Orphin (France)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Val-de-Charmey
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of Fribourg
- Official language
- French
- Population
- 2483
- Area
- 112.07
- Elevation
- 887
- Official website
- www.val-de-charmey.ch
- Image
- Charmey.jpg
- Licence plate code
- FR
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- inception
- 2014-01-01
- Commons category
- Val-de-Charmey
- postal code
- 1654
- replaces
- Charmey
- P8168
- Björnänge
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/2163
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Demographics
- Historic population
- Heritage sites of national significance
- Economy
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Val-de-Charmey () is a municipality in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Cerniat and Charmey merged into the municipality of Val-de-Charmey.
==History== Cerniat is first mentioned in 1288 as Sernia. Charmey is first mentioned in 1211 as Chalmeis. Until 1760 it was known as Feiguières. The municipality is also informally known by its German name Galmis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Val-de-Charmey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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