Fleurier

Fleurier
Location of Fleurier
Fleurier
Fleurier
Coordinates: 46°54′N 6°35′E / 46.900°N 6.583°E / 46.900; 6.583
CountrySwitzerland
CantonNeuchâtel
DistrictVal-de-Travers
Area
  Total
7.74 km2 (2.99 sq mi)
Elevation
741 m (2,431 ft)
Population
 (December 2007)
  Total
3,518
  Density450/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)
2114
SFOS number6506
ISO 3166 codeCH-NE
Surrounded byBoveresse, Buttes, Fontaines-sur-Grandson (VD), Mauborget (VD), Môtiers, Romairon (VD), Saint-Sulpice
Websitefleurier.ne.ch
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Fleurier was a municipality in the district of Val-de-Travers in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. On 1 January 2009, the former municipalities of Boveresse, Buttes, Couvet, Fleurier, Les Bayards, Môtiers, Noiraigue, Saint-Sulpice and Travers merged to form the administrative district of Val-de-Travers.

The Nobel laureates, physicist Charles Édouard Guillaume and pharmacologist Daniel Bovet, both originated from Fleurier.