 The municipality is located in the Leuk district, on a terrace above the entrance to the Turtmann valley into the Rhone valley.It consists of the villages of Ahorn and Bodmen and several scattered hamlets, such as Gruben/Meiden.The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is "Per fess Or a Crow displayed Sable between and above two Mullets of Five Argent and Argent from a two-peaked mountain Vert pouring water palewise wavy Azure."