Canton of Nidwalden
Canton of Nidwalden or Nidwald is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eleven municipalities and the seat of the government and parliament is in Stans.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: State with 40,800 residents
- Description: canton of Switzerland
- Also known as: “Canton of Nidwald”, “CH065”, “Kanton Nidwalden”, “Nidwald”, “Nidwalden”, “NW”, and “Unterwalden nid dem Wald”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Buochserhorn and Dallenwil railway station.
Buochserhorn
Peak
Photo: Mussklprozz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Buochserhorn is a mountain of the Swiss Prealps, overlooking Lake Lucerne near Buochs in the canton of Nidwalden. It lies on the range west of the Schwalmis.
Dallenwil railway station
Railway station
Dallenwil railway station is a Swiss railway station in the municipality of Dallenwil in the canton of Nidwalden. It is on the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line, owned by the Zentralbahn railway company.
Maria Rickenbach Monastery
Monastery
Maria Rickenbach Monastery is a Benedictine monastery of Religious Sisters. It is situated in the village of Niederrickenbach in the municipality of Oberdorf in the Swiss canton of Nidwalden.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stans and Buochs.
Stans
Photo: Ikiwaner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stans is the capital of the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland. The official language of Stans is German, but the main language is the local variant of Alemannic Swiss German.
Buochs
Village
Photo: MauroRoncoroni, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Buochs is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland.
Oberdorf
Village
Photo: Neithan90, Public domain.
Oberdorf is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland. It consists of the villages and hamlets of Wil, Ennerberg, Waltersberg, Büren nid dem Bach and Niederrickenbach.
Canton of Nidwalden
- Categories: canton of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.9428° or 46° 56′ 34″ northLongitude
8.412° or 8° 24′ 43″ eastPopulation
40,800Elevation
827 metres (2,713 feet)Abbreviation
“NW”Open location code
8FRCWCV6+4QOpenStreetMap ID
node 240049093OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Canton of Nidwalden” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kanton Nidwalden”
- Albanian: “Kantoni Nidwalden”
- Arabic: “كانتون نيدفالدن”
- Arabic: “نيدفالدن”
- Aragonese: “Cantón de Nidwalden”
- Armenian: “Նիդվալդեն”
- Arpitan: “Nidvalde”
- Arpitan: “Quenton de Nidevalde”
- Asturian: “Cantón de Nidwalden”
- Balinese: “Kanton Nidwalden”
- Basque: “Nidwalden”
- Belarusian: “Кантон Нідвальдэн”
- Belarusian: “Нідвальдэн”
- Bengali: “নিডওয়ডেন”
- Bosnian: “Nidwalden”
- Breton: “Kanton Nidwalden”
- Bulgarian: “Нидвалден”
- Catalan: “Cantó de Nidwalden”
- Catalan: “Nidwalden”
- Catalan: “NW”
- Cebuano: “Kanton Nidwalden”
- Cebuano: “Nidwalden”
- Chinese: “Nidwalden Chiu”
- Chinese: “下瓦尔登州”
- Chinese: “下瓦爾登州”
- Chinese: “下華登州”
- Chuvash: “Нидвальден”
- Croatian: “Nidwalden”
- Czech: “Nidwalden”
- Danish: “Nidwalden”
- Dutch: “Nidwalden”
- Esperanto: “kantono Nidvaldo”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Nidvaldo”
- Esperanto: “Nidvaldo”
- Estonian: “Nidwalden”
- Estonian: “Nidwaldeni kanton”
- Finnish: “Nidwalden”
- French: “canton de Nidwald”
- French: “Canton de Nidwald”
- French: “Nidwald”
- French: “NW”
- French: “Unterwalden-le-Bas”
- Galician: “Nidwalden”
- Georgian: “ნიდვალდენის კანტონი”
- German: “Kanton Nidwalden”
- German: “Kanton Unterwalden Nidwalden”
- German: “Nidwalden”
- German: “NW”
- German: “Unterwalden nid dem Wald”
- Greek: “Καντόνι του Νίντβαλντεν”
- Gujarati: “નિદ્વાલડેન”
- Hebrew: “נידוולדן”
- Hindi: “नीडवाल्डन कैन्टन”
- Hungarian: “Nidwald”
- Hungarian: “Nidwalden kanton”
- Hungarian: “Nidwalden”
- Hungarian: “NW”
- Iloko: “Nidwalden”
- Indonesian: “Kanton Nidwalden”
- Interlingue: “Canton de Nidwalden”
- Irish: “cantún Nidwalden”
- Irish: “Nidwalden”
- Italian: “canton Nidvaldo”
- Italian: “Canton Nidvaldo”
- Italian: “Cantone di Nidwaldo”
- Italian: “Nidvaldo”
- Italian: “Nidwaldo”
- Italian: “NW”
- Japanese: “ニトヴァルデン準州”
- Kannada: “ನಿಡ್ವಾಲ್ಡೆನ್”
- Kazakh: “Нидвальден”
- Korean: “니트발덴 주”
- Korean: “니트발덴”
- Korean: “니트발덴주”
- Kurdish: “Nidwalden”
- Ladin: “Nidwalden”
- Latin: “Subsilvania inferior”
- Latvian: “Nidvaldena”
- Latvian: “Nidvaldenes kantons”
- Limburgan: “Nidwalden”
- Lithuanian: “Nidvaldenas”
- Lombard: “Canton Nidvald”
- Lombard: “Canton Nidwalden”
- Luxembourgish: “Kanton Nidwald”
- Luxembourgish: “Kanton Nidwalden”
- Luxembourgish: “Nidwalden”
- Luxembourgish: “NW”
- Macedonian: “Нидвалден”
- Malay: “Nidwalden”
- Marathi: “निडवाल्डन”
- Mazanderani: “نیدوالدن”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nidwalden Chiu”
- Northern Frisian: “Nidwalden”
- Northern Sami: “Nidwalden”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nidwalden”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nidwalden”
- Norwegian: “Nidwalden”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Canton de Nidwald”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Canton de Sotsilvània”
- Ossetian: “Нидвальден”
- Persian: “کانتون نیدوالدن”
- Persian: “نیدوالدن”
- Piemontese: “Canton ëd Nidwald”
- Polish: “Nidwalden”
- Portuguese: “Nidwald”
- Pushto: “نید والدن”
- Romanian: “Cantonul Nidwald”
- Romansh: “Chantun Sutsilvania”
- Romansh: “Sutsilvania”
- Russian: “Нидвальден”
- Scots: “Nidwalden”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Nidwalden”
- Serbian: “Кантон Нидвалден”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nidwalden”
- Sicilian: “Canton Nidvaldu”
- Sinhala: “නිඩ්වල්දෙන්”
- Slovak: “Nidwalden”
- Slovenian: “Kanton Nidwalden”
- Slovenian: “Nidwalden”
- Slovenian: “NW”
- South Azerbaijani: “نیدولدان”
- Spanish: “Cantón de Nidwalden”
- Spanish: “Nidwalden”
- Spanish: “NW”
- Swahili: “Nidwalden”
- Swedish: “Nidwalden”
- Swiss German: “Kanton Nidwaudä”
- Swiss German: “NW”
- Tamil: “நிட்வல்டென்”
- Telugu: “నిడ్వాల్జెన్”
- Thai: “รัฐนิดวัลเดิน”
- Tosk Albanian: “Kanton Nidwalden”
- Turkish: “canton de Nidwald”
- Turkish: “Nidvaldo”
- Turkish: “Nidwald”
- Turkish: “Nidwalden kantonu”
- Turkish: “Nidwalden”
- Turkish: “NW”
- Turkish: “Subsilvania inferior”
- Turkish: “Sutsilvania”
- Turkish: “Unterwalden nid dem Wald”
- Turkish: “Unterwalden-le-Bas”
- Ukrainian: “Нідвальден”
- Urdu: “نیدوالدن”
- Venetian: “Canton Nidvaldo”
- Vietnamese: “Nidwalden”
- Vietnamese: “NW”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nidwalden”
- Welsh: “Nidwalden”
- Western Panjabi: “نیدوالڈن”
- Wu Chinese: “下瓦尔登州”
- Yue Chinese: “下華登州”
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