Bellwald is a municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

[3] Bellwald has an area, as of 2011[update], of 13.7 square kilometers (5.3 sq mi).

[4] It lies at 1,600 m (5,200 ft) and is the highest village in Goms, or the upper Rhône river valley.

The municipality consists of scattered settlements between the Rhône and Fiescher valley.

It consists of the village of Bellwald and the hamlets of Ried, Eggen, Bodmen and Fürgangen.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, issuant from Coupeaux Vert a Pine tree of the same trunked Maroon.

[4] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (375 or 87.8%) as their first language, Serbo-Croatian is the second most common (16 or 3.7%) and Albanian is the third (12 or 2.8%).

[4] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][11] The entire hamlet of Bodma is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[14] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 165 votes were cast, of which 5 or about 3.0% were invalid.

[4] There were 204 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.6% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 19 or 18.8% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 16 or 15.8% were in the movement and storage of goods, 49 or 48.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 1 was a technical professional or scientist, 3 or 3.0% were in education.

[4] From the 2000 census[update], 332 or 77.8% were Roman Catholic, while 28 or 6.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

The education system in the Canton of Valais allows young children to attend one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten.

All the lower secondary students from Bellwald attend their school in a neighboring municipality.