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Gals
Canton	Bern
District	Erlach
Coordinates	47°2′N 7°3′E
Population	686   (2005)
Area	7.83 km²
Elevation	445 m
Postal code	3238
SFOS number	0494
Mayor	Andres Schreyer
Website	www.gals.ch
Gals

Gals (French: Chules) is a municipality in the Erlach administrative district of the canton of Bern, Switzerland. The municipality lies between the Zihl Canal (Thielle) and Jolimont. The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ... The Swiss canton of (help· info) is bilingual (German: Kanton Bern; French Canton de Berne) and has a population of about 947,000. ... In contrast to centrally organised states, in the federally constituted Switzerland each Canton is completely free to decide its own internal organisation. ... The District of Erlach is one of the 26 administrative districts in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. ... This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (vertically) and longitude (horizontally); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... The metre, or meter (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ... Here are postal codes of Switzerland and Liechtenstein: Zone 1 1000s are found in Lausanne, Lavaux and parts of Morges, 1100s in parts of Morges, 1200s are in Geneva and parts of La Côte, Vaud, 1300s in La Vallée, 1500s are found in Clavaleyres, the 1700s are found... The Official Munipality Key, formerly also known as the Official Municipality Characteristic Number or Municipality Code Number, is a number sequence for the identification of politically independent municipalities or municipality-free areas. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger,greater) is in modern times the title of the highest ranking municipal officer, who discharges certain judicial and administrative functions, in many systems an elected politician, who serves as chief executive and/or ceremonial official of many types of municipalities. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1359x922, 341 KB) Switzerland Map drawn by Tschubby see also Karte_Schweiz_Details. ... Image File history File links Locator_Dot. ... The District of Erlach is one of the 26 administrative districts in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. ... The Swiss canton of (help· info) is bilingual (German: Kanton Bern; French Canton de Berne) and has a population of about 947,000. ...

The municipality is 79% German-speaking and 15% French-speaking.

External link

• Gals in German, French or Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

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Municipalities in the district of Erlach, Switzerland

Brüttelen | Erlach | Finsterhennen | Gals | Gampelen | Ins | Lüscherz | Müntschemier | Siselen | Treiten | Tschugg | Vinelz Image File history File links Berne-coat_of_arms. ... The District of Erlach is one of the 26 administrative districts in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. ...

Canton of Berne | Districts of Canton Bern | Municipalities of the canton of Bern The Swiss canton of Bern (German: Kanton Bern; French Canton de Berne) has a population of about 947,000. ... In contrast to centrally organised states, in the federally constituted Switzerland each Canton is completely free to decide its own internal organisation. ...