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LAUTERBRUNNEN VALLEY

Lauterbrunnen is a municipality in the district of Interlaken in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

The municipality lies in the Lauterbrunnen Valley and comprises the villages Lauterbrunnen, Wengen, Mürren, Gimmelwald, Stechelberg and Isenfluh

Lauterbrunnen lies at the bottom of a hanging or U-shaped valley that extends south and then south-westwards from the village to meet the 8-kilometre-long Lauterbrunnen Wall.

Lauterbrunnen has a population (as of 2007) of 2,478, of which 19.2% are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -14.3%. Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (85.2%), with Portuguese being second most common (4.9%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (2.0%).

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