Canton of St. Gallen
Werdenberg
Buchs (SG)

Buchs

Buchs is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of in the canton of St. Gallen in . It serves as an important economic and transport hub, situated on the border with . Buchs officially became a town in 2002.
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  • Type: Town with 12,200 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Buchs SG”, “Buchs, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland”, and “Buchs, St. Gallen”
  • Postal code: 9470
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Buchs SG railway station and Catholic Church Sacred Heart.

Railway station
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is a railway station in Buchs, in the canton of . It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line and western terminus of the Feldkirch–Buchs line to and .

Church
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Castle
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is a castle in the municipality of of the in . It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. It was the original seat of the County of Werdenberg in the Holy Roman Empire.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Schaan and Mühleholz.

Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
is the largest municipality of by population. It is located to the north of , the capital, in the central part of the country.

Village
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is an Ortsteil in located in the municipality of . is situated 3 km east of Buchs.

Village
is a village in , located in the municipality of . Its name means "ebony" in German. is situated 3 km southeast of Buchs.

Buchs

Latitude
47.16276° or 47° 9′ 46″ north
Longitude
9.47641° or 9° 28′ 35″ east
Population
12,200
Elevation
447 metres (1,467 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CH BUC
Open location code
8FVF5F7G+4H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240077963
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2661349
Wiki­data ID
Q68277
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Buchs” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيوشس سانت غالن”
  • Armenian: “Բուքս”
  • Basque: “Buchs (SG)”
  • Basque: “Buchs”
  • Belarusian: “Букс”
  • Breton: “Buchs”
  • Catalan: “Buchs”
  • Cebuano: “Buchs (munisipyo sa Swisa, Kanton St. Gallen, Wahlkreis Werdenberg, lat 47,17, long 9,46)”
  • Cebuano: “Buchs”
  • Chinese: “Buchs, St. Gallen”
  • Chinese: “布克斯”
  • Czech: “Buchs”
  • Danish: “Buchs”
  • Dutch: “Buchs”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوغس سان جيلان”
  • Esperanto: “Buchs SG”
  • Finnish: “Buchs”
  • French: “Buchs SG”
  • French: “Buchs”
  • German: “Buchs SG”
  • German: “Buchs”
  • Hebrew: “בוכס”
  • Hungarian: “Buchs”
  • Indonesian: “Buchs, St. Gallen”
  • Indonesian: “Buchs”
  • Irish: “Buchs, Sankt Gallen”
  • Irish: “Buchs”
  • Italian: “Buchs SG”
  • Italian: “Buchs”
  • Japanese: “ブーフス (SG)”
  • Japanese: “ブックス (ザンクト・ガレン州)”
  • Japanese: “ブックス”
  • Kazakh: “Букс”
  • Korean: “부흐스”
  • Kurdish: “Buchs, St. Gallen”
  • Latin: “Pogius”
  • Lombard: “Buchs”
  • Malay: “Buchs (SG)”
  • Malay: “Buchs, St. Gallen”
  • Malay: “Buchs”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Buchs, St. Gallen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Buchs”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Buchs i St. Gallen”
  • Norwegian: “Buchs”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Buchs”
  • Persian: “بوک، سن گلان”
  • Persian: “بوک، سنت گالن”
  • Persian: “بوک، سن‌گلان”
  • Persian: “بوک”
  • Piemontese: “Buchs”
  • Polish: “Buchs”
  • Portuguese: “Buchs”
  • Romanian: “Buchs, St. Gallen”
  • Russian: “Букс”
  • Serbian: “Buchs”
  • Serbian: “Бухс”
  • Slovak: “Buchs”
  • Slovenian: “Buchs”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوک، سن‌گلان”
  • Spanish: “Buchs”
  • Swedish: “Buchs, Sankt Gallen”
  • Swedish: “Buchs”
  • Swiss German: “Buchs SG”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Buchs SG”
  • Turkish: “Buchs, St. Gallen”
  • Turkish: “Buchs”
  • Ukrainian: “Бухс”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Buchs”
  • Uzbek: “Buchs”
  • Uzbek: “Buks”
  • Venetian: “Buchs (San Gało)”
  • Venetian: “Buchs”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Buchs, St. Gallen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Buchs”
  • Welsh: “Buchs”
  • “Buchs”

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