Birgisch

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Birgisch

Total population

253

Elevation1093 m

Land area5.7 km²

Coordinates46.32°, 7.96°

Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Birgisch is a former municipality in the district of Brig in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Birgisch and Mund merged into the municipality of Naters.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Nearby places in Valais

• Brig
  1.5 mi away · pop. 12,823
• Blatten b. Naters
  3.2 mi away
• Ebnet
  3.3 mi away
• Belalp
  3.8 mi away
• Rosswald
  4.2 mi away
• Sommerseili
  4.2 mi away
• Breiten
  5.3 mi away
• Sankt German
  6.4 mi away
• Gspon
  6.8 mi away
• Bürchen
  7.1 mi away · pop. 767
• Grengiols
  7.6 mi away · pop. 436
• Martisberg
  8.4 mi away · pop. 16

Browse all places in Valais →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

European Mantis

Mantis religiosa

Seen 2026-09-15

Yellow Odontites

Odontites luteus

Seen 2026-09-15

European barberry

Berberis vulgaris

Seen 2026-09-15

Great Stonecrop

Hylotelephium maximum

Seen 2026-09-15

Western Honey Bee

Apis mellifera

Seen 2026-09-12

King Bolete

Boletus edulis

Seen 2026-09-11

Shiny Mottlegill

Panaeolus semiovatus

Seen 2026-09-10

Red-winged Grasshopper

Oedipoda germanica

Seen 2026-09-08

Rattle Grasshopper

Psophus stridulus

Seen 2026-09-08

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers