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Chur

capital of the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland
Place municipality_of_switzerland Q69007

Facts

25 properties
Instance of
municipality of Switzerland, cantonal capital of Switzerland, city of Switzerland[6][7]
Country
Switzerland[3]
Official website
www.chur.ch[29]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 46.852°, 9.530°
Capital of
Canton of the Grisons, Canton of Raetia, Raetia Curiensis, Plessur Region, Chur subdistrict[47][48][49][50][51]
Area
82 (28.1–82, n=3)
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Regesta Imperii, Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae et Valesiae, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Meyer’s Universum, Neunzehnter Band[38][39][40][41][42][43][44]
Different from
Chur
Elevation above sea level
+593
Has list
list of mayors of Chur, list of bishops of Chur, Liste der Weihbischöfe in Chur, Liste von Persönlichkeiten aus Chur
Heritage designation
Swiss townscape worthy of protection[52]
Licence plate code
GR[27]
List of monuments
list of cultural properties in Chur[54]
Local dialing code
081[28]
Located in or next to body of water
Rhine, Plessur[4][5]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Plessur Region, Chur subdistrict[2]
Native label
Chur, Coire, Cuira, Cuira, Coira, Cuera, Cuoira
Official name
Chur[53]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory
P14586
87790
Population
40k (7.0k–40k, n=8)[30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]
Postal code
7.0k (7.0k–7.0k, n=5)[22][23][24][25][26]
Replaces
Maladers, Tschiertschen-Praden[45][46]
Shares border with
Haldenstein, Trimmis, Churwalden, Domat/Ems, Maladers, Malix, Felsberg[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
Show all 25 facts +1
Twinned administrative body
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Mondorf-les-Bains, Cabourg, Mayrhofen, Olathe, Terracina, Engstingen[15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
🏷️ Also known as
en Chur en Coire en Chur GR ar خور de Cuira de Coire de Chur GR el Κουρ es Coira es Chur fa شور، سوئیس fr Chur fr Coira he כור hi कूर hi क्वार it Chur it Coire ja クール ko 쿠어
🔖 Identifiers · 57
VIAF cluster ID
154757544
Library of Congress authority ID
n79064879
GND ID
4010189-7
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Chur Juni 2010.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
1538
BHCL UUID
84575e55-5bff-47b4-afaa-2c8797a50a57
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12369126b
De Agostini ID
Còira
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--49473224
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
25
EHLFL ID
Chur_(Stadt)
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Chur
Show all 57 identifiers +45
External data available at URL
geo.ld.admin.ch
FAST ID
1205467
Facebook location ID
106239312747810
FactGrid item ID
Usseaux
Freebase ID
/m/016vjp
GeoNames ID
7285515, 2661169
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7007276
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
chur
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0017702
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Chur
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2122787, 5703785
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
kur-ec3ca2
Grove Art Online ID
T017560
HDS ID
001581
IdRef ID
027428575
Lex ID
Chur
Museum-digital place ID
11343
MusicBrainz area ID
7cb283d1-a165-41f9-87f4-b974dfbdfe47
NL CR AUT ID
ge601738
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
geo/6DD1A59A-9768-441B-B037-444A07E225F2
National Library of Ireland ID
vtls001422258
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007564240305171
Numista ruling authority ID
7154
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3886226
OpenStreetMap node ID
1577255384
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1684063
Pleiades ID
187357
Quora topic ID
Chur
RERO ID (legacy)
A003106298
Related category
Category:Squares in Chur
SBN place ID
MILL000735
SPAP ID
p/c4f1ae9b-5956-47dd-a7e7-f848babe59ca
SVKKL authority ID
0413072-Chur-svycarsko
Swiss Enterprise Identification Number
CHE-174.698.209
Swiss municipality code
3901
Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae thesaurus ID
2FOMNU2M7ZEPVN7U7QNAZFX2IY
Topic's main category
Category:Chur
ToposText place ID
468095UCur
Treccani ID
coira
Trismegistos Geo ID
3316
UN/LOCODE
CHCHR
VerbaAlpina ID
A60198
Who's on First ID
101853949
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJfcQmCVT6C7DbfF8tFdwC
Yale LUX ID
place/017cc361-839c-4032-a210-a171399b9f41

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🔗 Connections
People born here 73
Angelica Kauffmann, H. R. Giger, Mario Frick, Kurt Huber, Josias Braun-Blanquet, Yvonne Rüegg, Philip Schaff, Nino Niederreiter +65 more
People who died here 38
Alberto Giacometti, Gino Mäder, Ernst Marischka, Leon Schlumpf, Bibi Torriani, Harry Clarke, Giannin Andreossi, Hans Candrian +30 more
Contained subdivisions 15
Maladers, Haldenstein, Tschiertschen-Praden, Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha, Tschiertschen, Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (Chur), Chur railway station, Chur Altstadt railway station +7 more
← Headquarters location 12
Rhaetian Railway, Roman Catholic Diocese of Chur, Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha, Lia Rumantscha, La Quotidiana, Societad Retorumantscha, FC Chur 97, Grisons Cantonal Bank +4 more
← Municipal affiliation of a Swiss national 12
Karl Alexander Müller, Philip Schaff, Carl Hilty, Simeon Bavier, Jakob Buchli, Clara Ragaz, Johann Ulrich von Salis-Soglio, Alice Boner +4 more
Shares border with 7
Domat/Ems, Churwalden, Felsberg, Trimmis, Maladers, Haldenstein, Malix
Twinned administrative body 7
Terracina, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Olathe, Cabourg, Mayrhofen, Engstingen, Mondorf-les-Bains
← Shares border with 7
Domat/Ems, Churwalden, Felsberg, Trimmis, Maladers, Haldenstein, Malix
← Twinned administrative body 7
Terracina, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Olathe, Cabourg, Mayrhofen, Engstingen, Mondorf-les-Bains
← Work location 7
Wilhelm Pfeffer, Simeon Bavier, Vitus Huonder, Alois Carigiet, Stefan Engler, Martin Schmid, Christian Caminada
← Capital 5
Canton of the Grisons, Plessur District, Plessur Region, Raetia Curiensis, Canton of Raetia
Capital of 4
Canton of the Grisons, Plessur Region, Raetia Curiensis, Canton of Raetia
Described by source 4
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Regesta Imperii, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
← Category combines topics 4
Category:People from Chur, Category:Births in Chur, Category:Bishops of Chur, Category:Deaths in Chur
Residents 3
Gréta Arn, Zsolt Nemcsik, Joseph Maria Bonnemain
Located in or next to body of water 2
Rhine, Plessur
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
Replaces 2
Maladers, Tschiertschen-Praden
← Location of formation 2
Rhaetian Railway, Calanda Bräu
← Replaced by 2
Maladers, Tschiertschen-Praden
Category for people born here 1
Category:Births in Chur
Category for people who died here 1
Category:Deaths in Chur
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Chur
Country 1
Switzerland
FactGrid item ID 1
Usseaux
Has these parts 1
Haldenstein
Instance of 1
municipality of Switzerland
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Plessur Region
Named after 1
Raetia Curiensis
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
Topic's main category 1
Category:Chur
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Chur
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Summary

Chur is a Municipality of Switzerland[1].

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Chur include Raetia Curiensis[55], a historical region[56], in Switzerland[57].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Chur include Raetia Curiensis[55], a historical region[56], in Switzerland[57].

Related Entities

Alberto Giacometti Angelica Kauffmann Bündner Kunstmuseum Cabourg H. R. Giger Institute for Cultural Research Graubünden Karl Alexander Müller Mario Frick Switzerland Terracina University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons Usseaux WikiProject Govdirectory

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [55] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [56] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [57] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

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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. 16d ago · Horgner · 2026-10-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+34087'}, {'amount': '+34547'}, {'amount': '+35161'} +5
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Population: 39,753, mass upload ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/e2ea98ac2e9|details]])"
  2. 19d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['als', 'an', 'ar', 'azb', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bs', 'ca', 'ce', 'ceb', 'com
    Sitelink count → 94
    Area → {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+28.09'}, {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+54.26'}, {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+81.99'}
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    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Area: 81.99 square kilometre, area from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  3. 6w ago · Alstorx · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Chur
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Different from: Chur, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/275027|batch #275027]]"
  4. 12w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/46599|batch #46599]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  5. 13w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    VerbaAlpina ID → A60198
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ VerbaAlpina ID: A60198, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/263620|batch #263620]]"
  6. 17w ago · D3rT!m · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    EHLFL ID → Chur_(Stadt)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ EHLFL ID: Chur_(Stadt), Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/102007126|Chur (Stadt) (#102007126)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/3981|Historisches "
  7. 18w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14586 → 87790
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14586: 87790, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782930762135"
  8. 19w ago · Lehmannro · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Flag image → CHE Chur Flag.svg
    SVKKL authority ID → 0413072-Chur-svycarsko
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Flag image: CHE Chur Flag.svg, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782070149300"
  9. 21w ago · AnBuKu · 2026-06-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 46.85212, 'lon': 9.52965}
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → WikiProject Govdirectory
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Regesta Imperii +4
    Official website → https://www.chur.ch
    + 31 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Located in the administrative territorial entity: Chur subdistrict"
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