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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,500 residents
- Description: municipality and capital of the Canton of Glarus in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Glaris”, “Glaris Centre”, “Glarus (Switzerland)”, “Glarus GL”, and “Glarus, Canton of Glarus, Switzerland”
- Postal code: 8750
Places of Interest
Highlights include Courthouse, Glarus and State Library Glarus.
Katholische Burgkapelle St. Michael, Glarus
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Katholische Burgkapelle St. Michael, Glarus is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ennenda and Riedern.
Ennenda
Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ennenda is a former municipality in the canton of Glarus in Switzerland. Effective from 1 January 2011, Ennenda is part of the municipality of Glarus.
Riedern
Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Riedern is a former municipality in the canton of Glarus in Switzerland. Effective from 1 January 2011, Riedern is part of the municipality of Glarus.
Netstal
Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Netstal is a former municipality in the canton of Glarus in Switzerland. Effective from 1 January 2011, Netstal is part of the municipality of Glarus.
Glarus
- Categories: cantonal capital of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, municipality of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Glarus, Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.04221° or 47° 2′ 32″ northLongitude
9.0674° or 9° 4′ 3″ eastPopulation
5,500Elevation
476 metres (1,562 feet)IATA airport code
ZHGUnited Nations Location Code
CH GLAOpen location code
8FVF23R8+VXOpenStreetMap ID
node 31367562OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2660594Wikidata ID
Q63912
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Glarus” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Glarus”
- Albanian: “Glarusi”
- Arabic: “غلاروس”
- Arabic: “غلروس”
- Armenian: “Գլարուս”
- Asturian: “Glaris”
- Basque: “Glaris”
- Basque: “Glarus”
- Belarusian: “Гларус”
- Belarusian: “Глярус”
- 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”
- Hebrew: “גלרוס”
- 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”
- Kazakh: “Гларус”
- Korean: “글라루스”
- Kurdish: “Glarus”
- Latin: “Glarona”
- Latvian: “Glarusa”
- Lombard: “Glaruna”
- Macedonian: “Гларус”
- 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”
- Persian: “گلرو”
- Piemontese: “Glarona”
- Piemontese: “Glarus”
- Polish: “Glarus”
- Portuguese: “Glarona”
- Portuguese: “Glarus”
- Pushto: “ګلاروس”
- Romansh: “Glaruna”
- Russian: “Гларус”
- Scots: “Glarus”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Glarus”
- Serbian: “Гларус”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Glarus”
- Silesian: “Glarus (mjasto)”
- Silesian: “Glarus”
- Slovak: “Glarus”
- Slovenian: “Glarus”
- Spanish: “Glaris”
- Spanish: “Glarus”
- Swedish: “Glarus”
- Swiss German: “Glaris”
- Tamil: “கிளாரஸ்”
- Thai: “กลารุส”
- Tosk Albanian: “Glarus”
- Turkish: “Glarus”
- Ukrainian: “Гларус”
- Upper Sorbian: “Glarus”
- Urdu: “گلاروس”
- Uzbek: “Glarus”
- Venetian: “Glarona”
- Vietnamese: “Glarus”
- Volapük: “Glarus”
- Waray (Philippines): “Glarus”
- Welsh: “Glarus”
- Wu Chinese: “格拉鲁斯”
- “Glarus”
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