Glarus
Glarus is the capital of the canton of Glarus in Switzerland. Since 1 January 2011, the municipality of Glarus incorporates the former municipalities of Ennenda, Netstal and Riedern.
- Town with 5,500 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 476 metres (1,562 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code ZHG
- Description: municipality and capital of the Canton of Glarus in Switzerland
- Postal code: 8750
- Also known as“Glaris”“Glaris Centre”“Glarus (Switzerland)”“Glarus GL”“Glarus, Canton of Glarus, Switzerland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Courthouse with side pavilions and State Library Glarus.
Katholische Burgkapelle St. Michael, Glarus
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ennenda and Riedern.
Glarus
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Latitude
47.04221° or 47° 2′ 32″ north
Longitude
9.0674° or 9° 4′ 3″ east
UN/LOCODE
CH GLA
Open location code
8FVF23R8+VX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Glarus” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Glarus”
- Albanian: “Glarusi”
- Amharic: “ግላሩስ”
- Arabic: “غلاروس”
- Arabic: “غلروس”
- Aragonese: “Glaris”
- Armenian: “Գլարուս”
- Asturian: “Glaris”
- Azerbaijani: “Glarus”
- Basque: “Glaris”
- Basque: “Glarus”
- Belarusian: “Гларус”
- Belarusian: “Глярус”
- Bengali: “গ্লারুস”
- Breton: “Glarus”
- Bulgarian: “Гларус”
- Catalan: “Glaris”
- Catalan: “Glarus”
- Cebuano: “Glarus (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Glarus”
- Chechen: “Гларус”
- Chinese: “Glarus”
- Chinese: “格拉魯斯”
- Chuvash: “Гларус”
- Croatian: “Glarus”
- Czech: “Glarus”
- Danish: “Glarus”
- Dutch: “Glarus”
- Esperanto: “Glaruso GL”
- Esperanto: “Glaruso”
- Estonian: “Glarus”
- Finnish: “Glarus”
- French: “Glaris Centre”
- French: “Glaris”
- Georgian: “გლარუსი”
- German: “Glarus”
- Greek: “Γκλάρους”
- Hausa: “Glarus”
- Hebrew: “גלרוס”
- Hindi: “ग्लारस”
- Hungarian: “Glarus”
- Inari Sami: “Glarus”
- Indonesian: “Glarus”
- Interlingua: “Canton Glarus”
- Interlingua: “Glarus”
- Interlingue: “Glarus”
- Irish: “Glarus”
- Italian: “Glarona”
- Italian: “Glarus”
- Japanese: “グラールス”
- Javanese: “Glarus”
- Kazakh: “Гларус”
- Kirghiz: “Гларус”
- Korean: “글라루스”
- Kurdish: “Glarus”
- Latin: “Glarona”
- Latvian: “Glarusa”
- Lombard: “Glaruna”
- Luxembourgish: “Glarus”
- Macedonian: “Гларус”
- Malay: “Glarus”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Glarus”
- Northern Frisian: “Glarus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Glarus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byen Glarus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Glarus”
- Norwegian: “Glarus”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Glaris Centre”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Glarona Mejana”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Glarus Centrum”
- Oromo: “Glarus”
- Panjabi: “ਗਲਾਰਸ”
- Persian: “گلرو”
- Piemontese: “Glarona”
- Piemontese: “Glarus”
- Polish: “Glarus”
- Portuguese: “Glarona”
- Portuguese: “Glarus”
- Pushto: “ګلاروس”
- Pushto: “گلاروس”
- Romanian: “Glarus”
- Romansh: “Glaruna”
- Russian: “Гларус”
- Scots: “Glarus”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Glarus”
- Serbian: “Гларус”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Glarus”
- Silesian: “Glarus (mjasto)”
- Silesian: “Glarus”
- Slovak: “Glarus”
- Slovenian: “Glarus”
- Somali: “Glarus”
- Spanish: “Glaris”
- Spanish: “Glarus”
- Swahili: “Glarus”
- Swedish: “Glarus”
- Swiss German: “Glaris”
- Swiss German: “Glarus”
- Tajik: “Гларус”
- Tamil: “கிளாரஸ்”
- Tatar: “Гларус”
- Thai: “กลารุส”
- Turkish: “Glarus”
- Ukrainian: “Гларус”
- Ukrainian: “Ґларус”
- Upper Sorbian: “Glarus”
- Urdu: “گلاروس”
- Uzbek: “Glarus”
- Venetian: “Glarona”
- Vietnamese: “Glarus”
- Volapük: “Glarus”
- Waray (Philippines): “Glarus”
- Welsh: “Glarus”
- Wu Chinese: “格拉鲁斯”
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