Bern (or Berne) is the capital of Switzerland.
Bern or Berne may also refer to:
Places
Germany
- Berne, Germany, a town in Lower Saxony
- Berne, Hamburg, former village which became a quarter of Hamburg
Italy
- Verona, Italy, a city called Bern in Middle High German
Netherlands
- Bern (Netherlands), a hamlet in Gelderland
Switzerland
- Canton of Bern, of which Bern is the capital
- Bern (district), the city's administrative district in the Canton of Bern
United States
People
- Bern, a nickname or short form for the given names Bernard, Bernadette, and Bernadine
- Zvi Bern (born 1960), American theoretical physicist
- Dietrich von Bern (454–526), the German name of Theodoric the Great), king of the Ostrogoths
- Eric Berne (1910–1970), Canadian psychiatrist
- Josef Berne (1904–1964), Russian-born American writer, film director and producer
- Suzanne Berne (born 1961), American novelist
- Tim Berne (born 1954), American jazz saxophonist and composer
Other uses
- Bern Convention (or Berne Convention), shorthand for the Berne Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, also known as the Bern Convention (or Berne Convention), a binding international legal instrument in the field of Nature Conservation
- Berne Convention, shorthand for the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, an international agreement governing copyright
See also
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