Canton of St. Gallen
Wil
Wil (SG)

Wil

Wil is a town and political municipality in the canton of St. Gallen in . It has a small-town character and is an important center for the west of the canton, lower and Hinterthurgau.
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  • Type: Town with 25,000 residents
  • Description: city and municipality in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Stadt Wil”, “Wil (SG)”, “Wil SG”, “Wil, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland”, and “Wil, Switzerland”
  • Postal code: 9500

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wil railway station and Altes Schützenhaus, Wil.

Railway station
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, or Wil SG railway station, is a railway station in Wil, in the canton of . It sits at the junction of three standard-gauge railway lines: Wil–Kreuzlingen, St.

Historic building
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is a historic building.

Stadium
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is located in the city of Wil in the canton of and is the home ground of the football club FC Wil and the American football franchise Helvetic Mercenaries. The football stadium is owned by the city of Wil.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bronschhofen and Wilen.

Village
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is a former municipality in the Wahlkreis of in the canton of St. Gallen in . It merged into Wil on 1 January 2013.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Münchwilen in the canton of in . Prior to Thurgau's 1998 reorganisation, was known as bei Wil and was part of , which was then broken up into the municipalities of and .

Village
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is a village.

Wil

Latitude
47.46527° or 47° 27′ 55″ north
Longitude
9.04155° or 9° 2′ 30″ east
Population
25,000
Elevation
569 metres (1,867 feet)
Open location code
8FVFF28R+4J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240109752
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2657996
Wiki­data ID
Q64077
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Waray—“Wil” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Wil”
  • Arabic: “ويل”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vil (Sankt-Qallen)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vil”
  • Basque: “Wil (SG)”
  • Basque: “Wil”
  • Belarusian: “Віль”
  • Breton: “Wil”
  • Catalan: “Wil”
  • Cebuano: “Wil”
  • Chinese: “Wil”
  • Chinese: “維爾”
  • Chinese: “维尔”
  • Czech: “Wil SG”
  • Danish: “Wil”
  • Dutch: “Wil”
  • Esperanto: “Wil SG”
  • Finnish: “Wil”
  • French: “Wil SG”
  • French: “Wil”
  • Galician: “Wil”
  • German: “Stadt Wil”
  • German: “Wil SG”
  • German: “Wil”
  • Hebrew: “ויל”
  • Hungarian: “Wil (SG)”
  • Indonesian: “Wil”
  • Irish: “Wil SG”
  • Irish: “Wil”
  • Italian: “Wil”
  • Japanese: “ヴィル (ザンクト・ガレン州)”
  • Kazakh: “Виль”
  • Korean: “빌”
  • Kurdish: “Wil”
  • Lithuanian: “Vilis”
  • Lombard: “Wil”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wil SG”
  • Macedonian: “Вил”
  • Malay: “Wil (SG)”
  • Malay: “Wil, St. Gallen”
  • Malay: “Wil”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wil”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wil”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Wil”
  • Persian: “ویل، سن گلان”
  • Persian: “ویل، سنت گالن”
  • Persian: “ویل، سن‌گلان”
  • Persian: “ویل”
  • Piemontese: “Wil”
  • Polish: “Wil”
  • Portuguese: “Wil”
  • Quechua: “Wil SG”
  • Russian: “Виль”
  • Serbian: “Wil”
  • Serbian: “Вил”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویل، سن‌گلان”
  • Spanish: “Wil”
  • Swedish: “Wil, Sankt Gallen”
  • Swedish: “Wil”
  • Swiss German: “Wil SG”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Wil SG”
  • Turkish: “Wil SG”
  • Turkish: “Wil, St. Gallen”
  • Turkish: “Wil”
  • Ukrainian: “Віль”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Wil”
  • Uzbek: “Vil”
  • Uzbek: “Wil”
  • Venetian: “Wil”
  • Volapük: “Wil (St. Gallen)”
  • Volapük: “Wil”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wil”

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