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Birs

river in Switzerland
River Q14340
Birs
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Facts

13 properties

Identity

Instance of
river

Location

Country
Switzerland[7]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 47.214°, 7.195°, 🗺️ 47.558°, 7.617°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Canton of Berne, Canton of Jura, Canton of Solothurn, Canton of Basel-Landschaft, Canton of Basel-Stadt[2][3][4][5][6]

Population and size

Elevation above sea level
+249[21]
Length
+73[20]
More facts +7
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19]
Discharge
+8.22[23]
Drainage basin
Rhine basin[24]
Mouth of the watercourse
Rhine[8]
Tributary
Sorne, Trame, Raus, Tugbach, Klusbach, Lüssel, Lucelle, Scheulte, Schlossgrabenbach (Birs)[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
Waterbody number
CH/443[18]
Watershed area
+924[22]
🏷️ Also known as
en Birs fr Birse he בירס ko 비르스강 ru Бирс uk Бірс zh 比尔斯河 zh 比爾斯河
🔖 Identifiers · 13
VIAF cluster ID
245396362
GND ID
4461135-3
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Birs
FAST ID
1294875
Freebase ID
/m/02w3fj1
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2551296
GeoNames ID
2661491
HDS ID
008765
J9U entity ID
987007534932305171
KSW place ID
77416
Museum-digital place ID
59295
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2202591
Show all 13 identifiers +1
Quora topic ID
Birs
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Zurich 2026-09-26 H/STM · 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
Transform
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🔗 Connections
← Located in or next to body of water 30
Basel, Delémont, Dornach, Münchenstein, Birsfelden, Moutier, Muttenz, Arlesheim +22 more
Located in the administrative territorial entity 5
Canton of Berne, Canton of Jura, Canton of Basel-Landschaft, Canton of Basel-Stadt, Canton of Solothurn
Tributary 4
Lucelle, Sorne, Scheulte, Raus
← Mouth of the watercourse 4
Lucelle, Sorne, Scheulte, Raus
← Lowest point 2
Canton of Basel-Landschaft, Canton of Solothurn
Category for the water basin 1
Category:Tributaries of the Birs
Country 1
Switzerland
Described by source 1
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Drainage basin 1
Rhine basin
Instance of 1
river
Mouth of the watercourse 1
Rhine
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Tributaries of the Birs
← Tributary 1
Rhine
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Summary

Birs is a river[1].

Related Entities

Switzerland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 19w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Discharge → 8.22 cubic metre per second
    Drainage basin → Rhine basin
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Canton of Berne, Canton of Jura, Canton of Solothurn +1
    Instance of → river
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: KSW place ID: 77416, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782930762135"
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