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Oberbalm

municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
AdministrativeArea municipality_of_switzerland Q65883

Facts

17 properties

Identity

Instance of
municipality of Switzerland
Official website
oberbalm.ch[10]
Official name
Oberbalm[25]

Location

Country
Switzerland[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 46.873°, 7.404°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Bern-Mittelland administrative district, Bern District[3]
Shares border with
Köniz[6]

Population and size

Area
+12.40, +12.39[29][30]
Elevation above sea level
+821, +776[27][28]
Population
856 (835–912, n=30)[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]

Codes

Local dialing code
031[9]
Postal code
3096[7]
More facts +5
Licence plate code
BE[8]
List of monuments
list of cultural properties in Oberbalm[26]
Member of
SGV-ACS[2]
Official language
German[5]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory[31]
🏷️ Also known as
en Balmes en Oberbalm en Oberbalm BE de Balmes es Balmes fi Balmes fr Balmes it Balmes ja オーバーバルム pl Balmes ru Обербальм zh 上巴爾姆 zh-hans 上巴尔姆
🔖 Identifiers · 17
VIAF cluster ID
234339078
GND ID
4636846-2
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Oberbalm Stöckli Übersicht.jpg ↗
External data available at URL
geo.ld.admin.ch
FactGrid item ID
Sankt-Sebastian-Kirche
Freebase ID
/m/0cgqqd
GADM ID
CHE.6.3.8_1
GeoNames ID
7286673
HDS ID
000215
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1682584
Ortsnamen.ch ID
802000357
SPAP ID
p/642a108e-c532-4d6a-bd3f-58d96b02a390
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Swiss Enterprise Identification Number
CHE-266.662.279
Swiss municipality code
357
Topic's main category
Category:Oberbalm
Who's on First ID
1125832281
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJbxByCYGXpDQpV9xcDpfq
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · 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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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Zurich 2026-09-26 A/ADM3 · 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
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🔗 Connections
← Shares border with 4
Köniz, Wald, Rüeggisberg, Niedermuhlern
Country 1
Switzerland
FactGrid item ID 1
Sankt-Sebastian-Kirche
Instance of 1
municipality of Switzerland
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Bern-Mittelland administrative district
Official language 1
German
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
People born here 1
Michel Riesen
Shares border with 1
Köniz
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Bern-Mittelland administrative district
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Summary

Oberbalm is a Municipality of Switzerland[1].

Related Entities

Switzerland WikiProject Govdirectory

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [2] ↑ . chgemeinden.ch. Retrieved . chgemeinden.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  13. [14] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  15. [16] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  19. [20] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . govdirectory.org. Retrieved . govdirectory.org. Provenance: 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. 18d ago · Horgner · 2026-10-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+869'}, {'amount': '+853'}, {'amount': '+842'} +27
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'ceb', 'cv', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'eu', 'fr', 'it', 'kk',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Population: 856, mass upload ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/e2ea98ac2e9|details]])"
  2. 19w ago · Lehmannro · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Oberbalm
    Official language → German
    Member of → —
    Population → {'amount': '+869'}, {'amount': '+853'}, {'amount': '+842'} +27
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Flag image: CHE Oberbalm Flag.svg, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782070149300"
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