Wilderswil belongs to the Small Agglomeration Interlaken with 23,300 inhabitants (2014).
Geography
The village of Wilderswil is situated at the southern border of the Bödeli, the tongue of land between
Lake Thun 
and
Lake Brienz 
in the Bernese Oberland region. It lies at the entrance to the mountain valleys containing the
Lütschine 
river and its tributary the Saxetenbach, and is some 4 km (2.5 mi) south of Interlaken, the main town of the Bödeli.
The municipality extends for some 8 km (5.0 mi) from the village, along the west bank of the Lütschine river, and includes the flanks of the mountains that border that valley to the west. Its altitude ranges from some 580 m (1,900 ft), on the Bödeli plain, to 2,413 m (7,917 ft), at the summit of Sulegg.