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Val-de-Charmey

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Also known as Val-de-Charmey FR

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

Official name
Val-de-Charmey
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
external data available at URL
geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/2163
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  • History
  • Geography
  • Demographics
  • Historic population
  • Heritage sites of national significance
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • Crime
  • References

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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