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Orsières

municipality in Switzerland
AdministrativeArea municipality_of_switzerland Q70206

Facts

18 properties
Instance of
municipality of Switzerland
Country
Switzerland[4]
Official website
www.orsieres.ch[13]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 46.033°, 7.150°, 🗺️ 45.972°, 7.102°
Area
+165.0, +164.93[22][23]
Elevation above sea level
1.9k (887–1.9k, n=3)[19][20][21]
Licence plate code
VS[11]
List of monuments
list of cultural properties in Orsières[18]
Local dialing code
027[12]
Located in or next to body of water
Dranse d'Entremont, Dranse de Ferret[5][6]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Entremont District[3]
Member of
SGV-ACS[2]
Official language
French[7]
Official name
Orsières[17]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory[24]
Population
3.3k (3.2k–3.3k, n=3)[14][15][16]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 3,190 · 3,183 · 3,339 GeoNames 2,725 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Postal code
1937[10]
Shares border with
Courmayeur, Saint-Rhémy-en-Bosses[8][9]
🏷️ Also known as
en Orsieres en Orsières en Orsieres VS en Orsières VS de Orsieres de Som la Proz de Commeire de Prassurny de Reppaz es Comuna de Orsières es Comuna de Orsieres es Orsieres fa اورسیر fr Orsieres fr Praz-de-fort it Champex-Lac ja オルシエール nl Orsieres uk Орсьєр zh 奧西耶爾
🔖 Identifiers · 21
VIAF cluster ID
248168697
GND ID
4243216-9
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Orsieres-Village.jpg ↗
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
7761
External data available at URL
geo.ld.admin.ch
FactGrid item ID
Up from the Ground
Freebase ID
/m/0h10yd
GADM ID
CHE.23.3.4_1
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2553534
GeoNames ID
2659281
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 2659281 GND (DNB) 6458074 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7007439
HDS ID
002678
Show all 21 identifiers +9
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1685351
Pleiades ID
167862
RKD thesaurus ID
79022
SPAP ID
p/0ddda84f-be6c-494c-ba62-3c6f716ca1e9
Swiss municipality code
6034
Topic's main category
Category:Orsières
VerbaAlpina ID
A61114
Who's on First ID
101853233
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJvxw63cbMFKwC6KyhKKh3

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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
Transform
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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
Contained subdivisions 19
Mont Dolent, Le Catogne, Pointe d'Orny, Tête de Ferret, Col Ferret, Le Portalet, Génépi, Grande Fourche +11 more
People born here 4
Jean-Marie Lovey, Maurice Tornay, Jean Troillet, Michel Darbellay
Shares border with 2
Courmayeur, Saint-Rhémy-en-Bosses
← Shares border with 2
Courmayeur, Saint-Rhémy-en-Bosses
Country 1
Switzerland
Instance of 1
municipality of Switzerland
Located in or next to body of water 1
Dranse de Ferret
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Entremont District
Official language 1
French
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
People who died here 1
Estelle Balet
Residents 1
Nicolas Puech
Topic's main category 1
Category:Orsières
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Orsières
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Entremont District
← SNARC ID 1
Emanuel Bowen
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Summary

Orsières is a Municipality of Switzerland[1].

Related Entities

Switzerland WikiProject Govdirectory

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [2] ↑ . chgemeinden.ch. Retrieved . chgemeinden.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . 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. 15d ago · Horgner · 2026-10-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+3190'}, {'amount': '+3183'}, {'amount': '+3339'}
    Wikipedia languages → ['als', 'ca', 'ceb', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fr', 'frp', 'it'
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Population: 3,339, mass upload ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/e2ea98ac2e9|details]])"
  2. 12w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    VerbaAlpina ID → A61114
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ VerbaAlpina ID: A61114, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/263620|batch #263620]]"
  3. 19w ago · Lehmannro · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in or next to body of water → Dranse d'Entremont, Dranse de Ferret
    Topic's main category → Category:Orsières
    Official language → French
    Member of → —
    + 24 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Flag image: CHE Orsières Flag.svg, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782070149300"
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