Benken
Benken is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Benken has about 3,070 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 3,070 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Benken SG”, “Benken, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland”, and “Benken, St. Gallen”
- Postal code: 8717
Places of Interest
Highlights include Burg Wandelberg and St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church.
Benken railway station
Railway stop
Benken railway station is a railway station situated in the municipality of Benken in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is located on the Rapperswil to Ziegelbrücke line.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kaltbrunn and Uznach.
Kaltbrunn
Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kaltbrunn is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Uznach
Village
Photo: Sidonius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Uznach is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Uznach is situated 3½ km northwest of Benken.
Reichenburg
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Reichenburg is a municipality in March District in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland. Reichenburg is situated 4 km southwest of Benken.
Benken
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Benken (SG), See-Gaster, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.19726° or 47° 11′ 50″ northLongitude
9.00403° or 9° 0′ 15″ eastPopulation
3,070Elevation
437 metres (1,434 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH BKNOpen location code
8FVF52W3+WJOpenStreetMap ID
node 240040247OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Benken” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բենկեն”
- Basque: “Benken (SG)”
- Basque: “Benken”
- Breton: “Benken”
- Catalan: “Benken”
- Cebuano: “Benken”
- Chinese: “本肯”
- Czech: “Benken SG”
- Czech: “Benken”
- Dutch: “Benken”
- Esperanto: “Benken SG”
- French: “Benken”
- German: “Benken SG”
- German: “Benken”
- Hungarian: “Benken (SG)”
- Irish: “Benken”
- Italian: “Benken”
- Kazakh: “Бенкен”
- Latin: “Babinchova”
- Lombard: “Benken”
- Malay: “Benken (SG)”
- Malay: “Benken, St. Gallen”
- Malay: “Benken”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Benken”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Benken i St. Gallen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Benken SG”
- Piemontese: “Benken”
- Polish: “Benken”
- Portuguese: “Benken”
- Russian: “Бенкен”
- Slovak: “Benken”
- Spanish: “Benken”
- Swedish: “Benken, Sankt Gallen”
- Swedish: “Benken”
- Swiss German: “Bängge”
- Tosk Albanian: “Benken SG”
- Turkish: “Benken, St. Gallen”
- Ukrainian: “Бенкен (Санкт-Галлен)”
- Ukrainian: “Бенкен”
- Upper Sorbian: “Benken”
- Uzbek: “Benken”
- Venetian: “Benken (San Gało)”
- Venetian: “Benken”
- Vietnamese: “Benken”
- Waray (Philippines): “Benken, St. Gallen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Benken”
- Welsh: “Benken”
- “Benken”
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