Buchs
Buchs is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of Werdenberg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It serves as an important economic and transport hub, situated on the border with Liechtenstein. Buchs officially became a town in 2002.
- Type: Town with 12,200 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Buchs (munisipyo sa Swisa, Kanton St. Gallen, Wahlkreis Werdenberg, lat 47,17, long 9,46)”, “Buchs, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland”, “Buchs, St. Gallen”, “Buks”, “بوک، سن گلان”, “ブーフス (SG)”, and “ブックス (ザンクト・ガレン州)”
- Postal code: 9470
- Neighbors: Schaan and Vaduz
Places of Interest
Highlights: Buchs SG railway station and Catholic Church Sacred Heart.
Buchs SG railway station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schaan and Mühleholz.
Mühleholz
Village
Ebenholz
Village
Ebenholz is a village in Liechtenstein, located in the municipality of Vaduz. Ebenholz is situated 3 km southeast of Buchs.
Buchs
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, border city, and locality
- Location: Buchs (SG), Werdenberg Disctrict, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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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)
UN/LOCODE
CH BUC
Open location code
8FVF5F7G+4H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Buchs” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيوشس سانت غالن”
- Aragonese: “Buchs”
- Armenian: “Բուքս”
- Basque: “Buchs (SG)”
- Basque: “Buchs”
- Belarusian: “Букс”
- Breton: “Buchs”
- Catalan: “Buchs”
- Cebuano: “Buchs”
- Chinese: “布克斯”
- Czech: “Buchs”
- Danish: “Buchs”
- Dutch: “Buchs”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوغس سان جيلان”
- Esperanto: “Buchs SG”
- Finnish: “Buchs”
- French: “Buchs”
- German: “Buchs SG”
- German: “Buchs”
- Hebrew: “בוכס”
- Hungarian: “Buchs”
- Indonesian: “Buchs, St. Gallen”
- Irish: “Buchs, Sankt Gallen”
- Irish: “Buchs”
- Italian: “Buchs”
- Japanese: “ブックス”
- Kazakh: “Букс”
- Korean: “부흐스”
- Kurdish: “Buchs, St. Gallen”
- Latin: “Pogius”
- Lombard: “Buchs”
- 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، سنگلان”
- Persian: “بوک”
- Piemontese: “Buchs”
- Polish: “Buchs”
- Portuguese: “Buchs”
- Romanian: “Buchs, St. Gallen”
- Russian: “Букс”
- Serbian: “Бухс”
- Slovak: “Buchs”
- Slovenian: “Buchs”
- South Azerbaijani: “بوک، سنگلان”
- Spanish: “Buchs”
- Swedish: “Buchs, Sankt Gallen”
- Swedish: “Buchs”
- Swiss German: “Buchs SG”
- Turkish: “Buchs, St. Gallen”
- Turkish: “Buchs”
- Ukrainian: “Бухс”
- Upper Sorbian: “Buchs”
- Uzbek: “Buchs”
- Venetian: “Buchs (San Gało)”
- Venetian: “Buchs”
- Waray (Philippines): “Buchs, St. Gallen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Buchs”
- Welsh: “Buchs”
- “Buchs”
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