Bex

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Bex is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in southwestern Switzerland, known for its historic salt mines and location in the Rhône valley near the Alps.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Bex canonical 3
BEX 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf municipality
populated place
cantonCapital Lausanne
climate temperate climate
coordinateLocation 46.248° N, 7.010° E
country Switzerland
elevation 1391 feet
424 metres
hasAttraction salt museum
underground salt mine galleries
hasCanton Vaud
hasHeritageSite Bex Salt Mines
hasIndustry salt production
tourism
hasMunicipalityCode 5403
hasNeighboringMunicipality Aigle
Collonges
Gryon
Lavey-Morcles
Massongex
Ollon
Ormont-Dessous
linked to: Ormont-Dessus

Saint-Maurice
hasOfficialLanguage French
hasPopulationEstimate approximately 7,000–8,000 inhabitants
hasRegion Chablais Vaudois
hasRiver Avançon de Nant
Rhône River
hasTransportConnection Bex railway station
hasWebsite https://www.bex.ch
ISO3166-2Code CH-VD
knownFor Bex Salt Mines
historic salt mines
locatedIn Rhône valley
canton of Vaud
linked to: Canton of Vaud

southwestern Switzerland
locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity district of Aigle
linked to: Aigle District
locatedInTimeZone Central European Summer Time
Central European Time
locatedNear Alps
locatedOn right bank of the Rhône River
partOf Swiss Alps region
postalCode 1880
railwayLine Bex–Villars–Bretaye railway
Simplon line
roadConnection A9 motorway

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Aigle hasRailConnection Bex
subject linked to: Aigle, Switzerland
St-Maurice borderedBy Bex
RER Vaud connects Bex
Bexhill railway station hasStationCode BEX
linked to: Bex
RAF Benson hasIataCode BEX
linked to: Bex