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Betten

village and former municipality in Bettmeralp in the canton of Valais, Switzerland
Place former_municipality_of_switzerland Q68474

Facts

14 properties

Identity

Instance of
former municipality of Switzerland, Ortsteil, Ortschaft[4][5]
Official website
gemeinde.bettmeralp.ch[15]
Official name
Betten[17]

Location

Country
Switzerland[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 46.367°, 8.067°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Bettmeralp[2]
Shares border with
Fieschertal, Lax, Martisberg, Grengiols, Riederalp, Naters[6][7][8][9][10][11]

Population and size

Area
+26.4[20]
Elevation above sea level
+1203, +1192[18][19]

Codes

Local dialing code
027[14]
Postal code
3991[12]
More facts +3
Licence plate code
VS[13]
P14976
58D7D862-A613-40B7-8012-126E12506197[21]
Replaced by
Bettmeralp[16]
🏷️ Also known as
en Betten en Betten VS de Betten-Bettmeralp de Betten VS it Bettmeralp ja ベッテン uk Беттен zh 貝滕
🔖 Identifiers · 14
VIAF cluster ID
242130823
GND ID
4115295-5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Betten.JPG ↗
FactGrid item ID
John Branch
Freebase ID
/m/0h6c63
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2551252
GeoNames ID
2661535
HDS ID
002746
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1685274
SPAP ID
p/45bc161c-8a4e-455a-839f-3c9318a3a7f8
Swiss municipality code
6171
Topic's main category
Category:Betten
Show all 14 identifiers +2
VerbaAlpina ID
A61176
Who's on First ID
1125919473
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 2 statements · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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PopulationP1082
450 2026-09-26 P/PPL · CH GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Zurich 2026-09-26 P/PPL · CH GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
Shares border with 6
Naters, Riederalp, Grengiols, Fieschertal, Lax, Martisberg
← Shares border with 6
Naters, Riederalp, Grengiols, Fieschertal, Lax, Martisberg
Contained subdivisions 1
Bettmeralp
Country 1
Switzerland
FactGrid item ID 1
John Branch
Instance of 1
Ortsteil
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Bettmeralp
Replaced by 1
Bettmeralp
← Replaces 1
Bettmeralp
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Summary

Betten is a former municipality of Switzerland[1].

Related Entities

Switzerland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . Historicized municipal directory of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . swissNAMES3D. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . swissNAMES3D. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14976 → 58D7D862-A613-40B7-8012-126E12506197
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14976: 58D7D862-A613-40B7-8012-126E12506197, swissNAMES3D ID from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  2. 25d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ca', 'ceb', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fr', 'gl', 'it', 'lmo', 'ms', 'nl',
    Official name → {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Betten'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||mul */ default label, official name from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  3. 13w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    VerbaAlpina ID → A61176
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ VerbaAlpina ID: A61176, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/263620|batch #263620]]"
  4. 26w ago · Jonas Waeber · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 46.366666666667, 'lon': 8.0666666666667}
    Aliases → —
    Coordinates → —
    Shares border with → Fieschertal, Lax, Martisberg +3
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: Ortschaft"
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