Blitzingen

village and former municipality in Goms in the canton of Valais, Switzerland
Place village Q70341
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Summary

Blitzingen is a village[1]. Blitzingen ranks in the top 0.46% of village entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (54 views/month, #234 of 50,837).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Goms[3]
  • Country: Switzerland[4]
  • Located in or next to body of water: Rhône[5]
  • Instance of: former municipality of Switzerland[6]
  • Shares border with: Bellwald[7], Ernen[8], Niederwald[9], Grafschaft[10]
  • Postal code: 3989[11]
  • Commons category: Blitzingen[12]
  • Licence plate code: VS[13]
  • Local dialing code: 027[14]
  • Official website: http://www.blitzingen.ch[15]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Blitzingen[16]
  • External data available at URL: https://geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/6055[17]
  • Replaced by: Goms[18]
  • Official name: Blitzingen[19]
  • Elevation above sea level: 1290 m[20]
  • Area: 11.8 km²[21], 11.84 km²[22]

Why It Matters

Blitzingen has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Blitzingen is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Historicized municipal directory of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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. 1d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ceb', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'eu', 'fr', 'gl', 'it', 'lmo', 'ms', 'nl', 'nn',
    Official name → {'lang': 'und', 'text': 'Blitzingen'}, {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Blitzingen'}
    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]])"
  2. 9w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → http://www.blitzingen.ch
    Country → —
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Goms
    Verbaalpina id → A61119
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Verbaalpina id: A61119, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/263620|batch #263620]]"
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