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| 1 | Mulhouse ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 242 Lat/Lng : 47.7495 / 7.3399 | Mulhouse (; Alsatian: Milhüsa or Milhüse, ; ; i.e. mill house) is a city and commune in eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. With a population of 112,063 in 2013 and 284,739 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2012, it is the largest city in the Haut-Rhin département, and the (...) | |
| 2 | EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 257 Lat/Lng : 47.5896 / 7.5299 | EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg IATA airport 3-letter codes for the French area, the Swiss area, and the metropolitan area is an international airport northwest of the city of Basel, Switzerland, southeast of Mulhouse in France, and south-southwest of Freiburg im Breisgau in Germany (...) | |
| 3 | Guebwiller ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 292 Lat/Lng : 47.9083 / 7.2108 | Guebwiller (; Alsatian: Gàwiller ;) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est currently in north-eastern France. It is situated northwest of Mulhouse at the foot of the Vosges mountains. The Ballon de Guebwiller, the highest point in the Vosges, lies to the west of the town (...) | |
| 4 | Saint-Louis, Haut-Rhin ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 256 Lat/Lng : 47.5858 / 7.5636 | Saint-Louis is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. The inhabitants are called Ludoviciens. (...) | |
| 5 | Belfort ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 365 Lat/Lng : 47.6379 / 6.8628 | Belfort is a city in northeastern France in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté région, situated between Lyon and Strasbourg. It is the biggest town and also the administrative centre of the Territoire de Belfort département. Belfort is from Paris, from Strasbourg, from Lyon and from Zürich (...) | |
| 6 | Gare de Lyon ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 48.8448 / 2.3735 | The Gare de Lyon (Lyon Station), officially Paris-Gare-de-Lyon, is one of the six large mainline railway station termini in Paris, France. It handles about 90,000,000 passengers every year, making it the third busiest station of France and one of the busiest of Europe (...) | |
| 7 | Switzerland ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1522 Lat/Lng : 46.8011 / 8.2267 | Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a country in Europe. It consists of 26 cantons, and the city of Bern is the seat of the federal authorities.Bern is referred to as "federal city" . Swiss law does not designate a capital as such, but the federal parliament and government are (...) | |
| 8 | Alsace ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 172 Lat/Lng : 48.5 / 7.5 | Alsace (; ; Alsatian: ’s Elsass ; German: ElsassGerman spelling before 1996: Elsaß ;) is a cultural and historical region in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. From 1982 to 2016, Alsace was the smallest administrative région in metropolitan France, (...) | |
| 9 | Huningue ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 246 Lat/Lng : 47.5919 / 7.5844 | Huningue (; ; Alsatian: Hinige) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of Alsace in north-eastern France. Huningue is a northern suburb of the Swiss city of Basel. It also borders Germany (Weil am Rhein, a suburb of Basel located in Germany). In 2008 it had a population of 6503 people (...) | |
| 10 | Gare de l'Est ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 48.8769 / 2.3592 | The Gare de l'Est (pronounced , Station of the East), officially Paris-Est, is one of the six large SNCF termini in Paris. It is in the 10th arrondissement, not far from the Gare du Nord, facing the Boulevard de Strasbourg, part of the north-south axis of Paris created by Baron Haussmann (...) | |
| 11 | Bern ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 544 Lat/Lng : 46.9491 / 7.4474 | Bern or Berne is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to by the Swiss as their (e.g. in German) Bundesstadt, or "federal city".According to the Swiss constitution, the Swiss Confederation intentionally has no "capital", but Bern has governmental institutions such as the Swiss parliament and (...) | |
| 12 | Basel SBB railway station ![]() FeatureType : railwaystation Elevation : 281 Lat/Lng : 47.5475 / 7.5896 | Basel SBB railway station (or in earlier times Centralbahnhof or Schweizer Bahnhof) is the central railway station in the city of Basel, Switzerland. Opened in 1854, and completely rebuilt in 1900–1907, it is Europe's busiest international border station (...) | |
| 13 | Bergamo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 252 Lat/Lng : 45.695 / 9.67 | Bergamo (; ; from the proto-Germanic elements *berg +*heim, the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como and Iseo and 70 km (43 mi) from Garda and Maggiore (...) | |
| 14 | Dijon ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 231 Lat/Lng : 47.2906 / 5.0428 | Dijon is a city in eastern , capital of the Côte-d'Or département and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. The earliest archaeological finds within the city limits of Dijon date to the Neolithic period. Dijon later became a Roman settlement named Divio, located on the road from Lyon to Paris (...) | |
| 15 | Haut-Rhin ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 199 Lat/Lng : 47.9642 / 7.3197 | Haut-Rhin (; Alsatian: Owerelsàss; German: Oberelsass) is a department in the Grand Est region of France, named after the river Rhine. Its name means Upper Rhine. Haut-Rhin is the smaller and less populated of the two departments of the former administrative Alsace region, especially after the 1871 (...) | |
| 16 | Freiburg im Breisgau ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 279 Lat/Lng : 47.9955 / 7.8522 | Freiburg im Breisgau (; Alemannic: Friburg im Brisgau) is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with a population of about 220,000. In the south-west of the country, it straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg (...) | |
| 17 | Gare de Dijon-Ville ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 248 Lat/Lng : 47.3235 / 5.0271 | Dijon or Dijon-Ville is a railway station located in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, eastern France. The station was opened in 1849 and is located on the Paris–Marseille railway, Dijon-Is-sur-Tille railway, Dijon-Saint-Amour railway and Dijon-Vallorbe railway. The train services are operated by SNCF and Thello. (...) | |
| 18 | Gare de Belfort – Montbéliard TGV ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 349 Lat/Lng : 47.5819 / 6.8769 | Belfort – Montbéliard TGV is a high speed railway station located in Meroux, Territoire de Belfort, eastern France. The station was opened in 2011 and is located on the LGV Rhin-Rhône connecting railway. The train services are operated by SNCF (...) | |
| 19 | Olten railway station ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 395 Lat/Lng : 47.3533 / 7.9078 | Olten is a major hub railway station in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland, at the junction of lines to Zürich, Bern, Basel, Lucerne and Biel. As a result, Olten is a railway town and was also the site of the main workshop of the Swiss Central Railway , which became a major workshop for the Swiss (...) | |
| 20 | France–Switzerland border ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 243 Lat/Lng : 47.5897 / 7.5892 | The France–Switzerland border is 572 km long.http://cnig.gouv.fr/?page_id=8642 Its modern boundaries are mostly the product of the Congress of Vienna of 1815, with the accession of Geneva, Neuchatel and Valais to the Swiss Confederation, but it has since been modified in detail, for the last time (...) | |
| 21 | Canton of Basel-Stadt ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 261 Lat/Lng : 47.557 / 7.593 | The canton of is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland, and the smallest of the cantons by area. The city of Basel and the municipalities of Bettingen and Riehen form its territory. (...) | |
| 22 | Gare de Besançon-Viotte ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 278 Lat/Lng : 47.247 / 6.022 | Besançon-Viotte is the main railway station located in Besançon, Doubs, eastern France. The station was opened in 1855 and is located on the Dole–Belfort railway, Besançon–Le Locle railway and Besançon-Viotte-Vesoul railway. The train services are operated by SNCF (...) | |
| 23 | LGV Rhin-Rhône ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 369 Lat/Lng : 47.5858 / 6.8975 | The LGV Rhin-Rhône (Ligne à Grande Vitesse) is a high-speed railway line, the first in France to be presented as an inter-regional route rather than a link from the provinces to Paris, though it actually is used by some trains to/from Paris (...) | |
| 24 | Basel ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 257 Lat/Lng : 47.567 / 7.583 | Basel (; also Basle ; ; ;) is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zürich and Geneva) with about 180,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany (...) | |
| 25 | Grand Ballon ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 1413 Lat/Lng : 47.9008 / 7.0986 | The Grand Ballon or Great BelchenChevrier, Jean-François. From Basel - Herzog & de Meuron, Basel: Birkhäuser, 2016, p. 54.Herz, J.H. Guide Through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, &c: Souvenir of the Hamburg-American Line (...) | |
| 26 | Lörrach ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 298 Lat/Lng : 47.6156 / 7.6616 | Lörrach is a city in southwest Germany, in the valley of the Wiese, close to the French and the Swiss borders. It is the capital of the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg. The largest industry is the Milka chocolate factory. The city had a population of 10,794 in 1905 and of 47,707 in 2007 (...) | |
| 27 | Pfetterhouse ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 439 Lat/Lng : 47.5017 / 7.1672 | Pfetterhouse is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. (...) | |
| 28 | Sélestat ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 175 Lat/Lng : 48.2594 / 7.4542 | Sélestat (; Alsatian: Schlettstàdt; German: Schlettstadt) is a commune in the northeast region of France. An administrative division (sous-préfecture) of the Bas-Rhin department, the town lies on the Ill river, from the Rhine and the German border (...) | |
| 29 | Gare de Besançon Franche-Comté TGV ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 240 Lat/Lng : 47.3088 / 5.9577 | Besançon Franche-Comté TGV is a high speed railway station located in Auxon-Dessus, Doubs, eastern France. The station was opened in 2011 and is located on the LGV Rhin-Rhône and Besançon-Viotte-Vesoul railway connecting railway. The train services are operated by SNCF (...) | |
| 30 | Ligue 1 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : 49.892 / 2.299 | Ligue 1 , also called Ligue 1 Conforama for sponsorship reasons with Conforama, is a French professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the French football league system, it is the country's primary football competition (...) | |
| 31 | Gare d'Avignon TGV ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 43.9217 / 4.7858 | Avignon TGV (IATA: XZN) is a railway station located in Avignon, France. It was opened on 10 June 2001 and is located on the LGV Méditerranée high-speed line and Avignon-Centre–Avignon TGV railway. The train services are operated by the SNCF. The station is located 6 km south of the city centre. (...) | |
| 32 | Bugatti ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 48.5268 / 7.4997 | Automobiles Ettore Bugatti was a French car manufacturer of high-performance automobiles, founded in 1909 in the then-German city of Molsheim, Alsace by the Italian-born industrial designer Ettore Bugatti. The cars were known for their design beauty and for their many race victories (...) | |
| 33 | Besançon ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 257 Lat/Lng : 47.2431 / 6.0219 | Besançon (French and Arpitan: ; archaic) is the capital of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzerland (...) | |
| 34 | Allschwil ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 288 Lat/Lng : 47.5511 / 7.5359 | Allschwil is a statistic town and a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. Allschwil is a seamless suburb of Basel and is located between Basel to the east and Alsace in France to the west (...) | |
| 35 | University of Freiburg ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 282 Lat/Lng : 47.9942 / 7.847 | The University of Freiburg (colloquially), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The university was founded in 1457 by the Habsburg dynasty as the second university in Austrian-Habsburg (...) | |
| 36 | LGV Est ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 211 Lat/Lng : 48.9475 / 6.1697 | The Ligne à Grande Vitesse Est européenne (East European High Speed Line), typically shortened to LGV Est, is a French high-speed rail line that connects Vaires-sur-Marne (near Paris) and Vendenheim (near Strasbourg) (...) | |
| 37 | A16 motorway (Switzerland) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 655 Lat/Lng : 47.3667 / 7.1852 | The A16, a motorway in north-central Switzerland, is a divided freeway connecting the border to France to the A5 motorway, to the south on the Swiss plateau."Die Schweitzer Autobahnen", web: Autobahnen.ch The A16 motorway is a long, winding corridor that crosses the Jura Mountains from the Canton of (...) | |
| 38 | Aix-en-Provence TGV railway station ![]() FeatureType : railwaystation Elevation : 188 Lat/Lng : 43.4551 / 5.3173 | Aix-en-Provence TGV is a high speed railway station located in Cabriès, Bouches-du-Rhône, southern France. The station was opened in 2001 and is located on the LGV Méditerranée. The train services are operated by SNCF (...) | |
| 39 | Bern railway station ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 549 Lat/Lng : 46.9494 / 7.439 | Bern railway station serves the municipality of Bern, the capital city of Switzerland. Opened progressively between 1858 and 1860, and rebuilt several times since then, it lies on the Olten–Bern and the Lausanne–Bern lines (together forming the line known as the Mittellandlinie in German) and is (...) | |
| 40 | Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 218 Lat/Lng : 47.9031 / 7.563 | The Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant is located in the Fessenheim commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in northeastern France, north east of the Mulhouse urban area, within of the border with Germany, and approximately from Switzerland (...) | |
| 41 | Les Eplatures Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 1024 Lat/Lng : 47.084 / 6.7928 | Les Eplatures Airport is a small international airport near La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. The airport primarily caters to executive and recreational flying, with some air taxi and charter service. (...) | |
| 42 | Allenwiller ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 244 Lat/Lng : 48.6558 / 7.3764 | Allenwiller (Alsatian: Allanwiller) is a former commune in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region of northeastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Sommerau. 8 December 2015 The inhabitants of the commune are known as Allenwillerois or Allenwilleroises. (...) | |
| 43 | Meggenhorn Castle ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 482 Lat/Lng : 47.0353 / 8.3562 | Meggenhorn Castle is a castle in Meggen near the Swiss city of Lucerne. It was built in 1868/70 by Edouad Hofer-Grosjean from Mulhouse and in 1926 equipped with a Welte Philharmonic Organ. It is surrounded by vine yards and is considered to be the municipality's symbol (...) | |
| 44 | Cité de l'Automobile ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 239 Lat/Lng : 47.7608 / 7.3286 | Cité de l’Automobile, Musée national de l’automobile, Collection Schlumpf is an automobile museum located in Mulhouse, France, and built around the Schlumpf Collection of classic automobiles. It has the largest displayed collection of automobiles and contains the largest and most comprehensive (...) | |
| 45 | Upper Rhine ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 106 Lat/Lng : 48.95 / 8.2667 | The Upper Rhine is the section of the Rhine in the Upper Rhine Plain between Basle in Switzerland and Bingen in Germany. The river is marked by Rhine-kilometres 170 to 529 (the scale beginning in Konstanz and ending in Rotterdam) (...) | |
| 46 | Freiburg Hauptbahnhof ![]() FeatureType : railwaystation Elevation : 272 Lat/Lng : 47.9978 / 7.8416 | Freiburg Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in the German city of Freiburg im Breisgau. The Rhine Valley Railway (Mannheim–Basel), Höllentalbahn ("Hell Valley Railway", Freiburg–Donaueschingen) and the Breisach Railway (Breisach–Freiburg) meet here (...) | |
| 47 | International E-road network ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 71.1667 / 25.8 | The international E-road network is a numbering system for roads in Europe developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The network is numbered from E 1 up and its roads cross national borders (...) | |
| 48 | Paracelsus ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 838 Lat/Lng : 47.1675 / 8.7668 | Paracelsus (; 1493/4 – 24 September 1541), born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (full name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von HohenheimThe name Philippus is only found posthumously, first on Paracelsus's tombstone (...) | |
| 49 | Rega (air rescue) ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 424 Lat/Lng : 46.2337 / 6.0968 | Swiss Air-Rescue (German: Schweizerische Rettungsflugwacht, French: Garde aérienne suisse de sauvetage, Rega) is a private, non-profit air rescue service that provides emergency medical assistance in Switzerland and Liechtenstein (...) | |
| 50 | History of Alsace ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 172 Lat/Lng : 48.5 / 7.5 | The History of Alsace begins when the area was inhabited by nomadic hunters in antiquity, and includes several changes in political control of the area between Germany and France. (...) | |
| 51 | Titisee-Neustadt ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 849 Lat/Lng : 47.9169 / 8.1925 | Titisee-Neustadt is a municipality in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is made up of the six communities of Neustadt, Langenordnach, Rudenberg, Titisee, Schwärzenbach and Waldau (...) | |
| 52 | RTL9 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 366 Lat/Lng : 49.637 / 6.1639 | RTL9 is a Luxembourgish television channel shown internationally to viewers in Luxembourg, France, Monaco, Belgium and francophone Switzerland. (...) | |
| 53 | Battle of Mulhouse (1674) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 242 Lat/Lng : 47.7495 / 7.3399 | The Battle of Mulhouse occurred on December 29, 1674, during the Franco-Dutch War between the French army and troops of the Holy Roman Empire and its allies, as part of Turenne's Winter Campaign. The French army was commanded by the Vicomte de Turenne and the imperial army was led by Prince (...) | |
| 54 | A39 autoroute ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 232 Lat/Lng : 46.8706 / 5.5814 | The A39 autoroute, also known as the L'Autoroute Verte, is a motorway in eastern France. The road connects Dijon with Dole and Bourg en Bresse. It forms part of European route E21. (...) | |
| 55 | Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 322 Lat/Lng : 47.6173 / 7.6772 | The Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach (DHBW-Loerrach) was founded in 1981 as Berufsakademie Lörrach. It offers workplace-focused, cooperative degree courses. This means that students alternate between learning the theory at school and applying it on the job in a three-months (...) | |
| 56 | Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 625 Lat/Lng : 47.4542 / 7.6233 | Invicta International Airways Flight 435 (IM435) was a Vickers Vanguard 952, flying from Bristol Lulsgate to Basel-Mulhouse, that ploughed into a snowy, forested hillside near Hochwald, Switzerland. It somersaulted and broke up, killing 108, with 37 survivors (...) | |
| 57 | Timeline of Basel ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 259 Lat/Lng : 47.5667 / 7.6 | The following is a of the history of the city of Basel (or Basle, in the once-preferred English spelling). Established in the 4th century, the city rose to importance in the medieval period as a bishop's seat. In the 15th century it became an important center of Renaissance humanism and, in the 16th (...) | |
| 58 | EV6 The Rivers Route ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 483 Lat/Lng : 48.4008 / 9.9872 | EuroVelo 6 (EV6), named The Rivers Route, is a EuroVelo long-distance cycling route running along some of Europe's major rivers, including much of the Loire, some of the Saône, a short section of the upper Rhine and almost the entire length of Europe’s second longest river, the Danube — from (...) | |
| 59 | Markgräflerland ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 347 Lat/Lng : 47.6667 / 7.6667 | Markgräflerland is a region in the southwest of Germany, in the south of the German federal state (Bundesland) of Baden-Württemberg, located between the Breisgau in the north and the Black Forest in the east; adjacent to west with France and in the south with Switzerland. (...) | |
| 60 | Möhlintal ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 395 Lat/Lng : 47.5199 / 7.9111 | The Möhlintal is a 10-kilometre long valley running between Möhlin and Wegenstetten in the Rheinfelden district of Canton Aargau, Switzerland. The five municipalities in the valley (Möhlin, Zeiningen, Zuzgen, Hellikon and Wegenstetten) have a total population of around 14,000 people (...) | |
| 61 | Todtnauberg ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1026 Lat/Lng : 47.8515 / 7.9409 | Todtnauberg is a German village in Black Forest (Schwarzwald) belonging to the municipality of Todtnau, in Baden-Württemberg. It is named after the homonym mount ("berg" means hill or mountain in German). It is famous because it is the place where the German philosopher Martin Heidegger had a chalet (...) | |
| 62 | Radio Dreyeckland ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 244 Lat/Lng : 47.7482 / 7.3397 | Radio Dreyeckland is a radio station in Mulhouse, Alsace, France. Another station with the same name operates in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Both stations are successors to Radio Verte Fessenheim which was started by opponents to the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant during the 1970s and was renamed (...) | |