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Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden

Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, in English sometimes Appenzell Outer Rhodes, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of twenty municipalities.
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  • Type: State with 55,300 residents
  • Description: canton of Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Appenzell A.Rh.”, “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”, “Appenzell Outer Rhodes”, “AR”, “Ausser Rhoden”, “CH053”, “Kanton Appenzell A.Rh.”, and “Kanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Abbey of Saint Gall and Abbey Library.

Monastery
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
The is a dissolved abbey in a Catholic religious complex in the city of in . The Carolingian-era monastery existed from 719, founded by Saint Othmar on the spot where Saint Gall had erected his hermitage.

Museum
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The of St Gall is a significant medieval monastic library located in , Switzerland. In 1983, the library, as well as the Abbey of St Gall, were designated a World Heritage Site, as "an outstanding example of a large Carolingian monastery and was, since the 8th century until its secularisation in 1805, one of the most important cultural centres in Europe".

Railway station
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is the main railway station of the city of , the capital of the in . It is located at the junction of the standard gauge St.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint Gallen and Teufen AR.

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is the main city of eastern . For travellers, its main draw is the centuries old Abbey of Saint Gall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with a world famous historic library.

Village
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Teufen is a municipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in .

Village
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is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of in the canton of St. Gallen in . The municipality consists of the villages of St. Josefen, Abtwil and Engelburg.

Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden

Latitude
47.396° or 47° 23′ 46″ north
Longitude
9.3706° or 9° 22′ 14″ east
Population
55,300
Elevation
883 metres (2,897 feet)
Abbreviation
“AR”
Open location code
8FVF99WC+C6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240086063
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2661739
Wiki­data ID
Q12079
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “AR”
  • Afrikaans: “Kanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Albanian: “Kantoni Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Arabic: “أبينزيل أوسيرهودن”
  • Arabic: “كانتون أبينزيل أوسيرهودن”
  • Aragonese: “AR”
  • Aragonese: “Cantón d’Appenzell Rodas Exteriors”
  • Armenian: “Ապենցել Աուսերռոդեն”
  • Arpitan: “Apenzél Rodes-Èxtèriores”
  • Arpitan: “AR”
  • Arpitan: “Quenton d’Apentsèl Rodes-de-Defôr”
  • Asturian: “AR”
  • Asturian: “Cantón d’Appenzell Rodes Esteriores”
  • Balinese: “Kanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Basque: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Basque: “AR”
  • Bavarian: “AR”
  • Belarusian: “Апенцэль — Аўсерродэн”
  • Belarusian: “Апенцэль — Інерродэн”
  • Belarusian: “Апэнцэль-Аўсэродэн”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাপেনজেল অসারহোডেন”
  • Bosnian: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Breton: “AR”
  • Breton: “Kanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Bulgarian: “Апенцел Аусерроден”
  • Catalan: “Appenzell Ausser-Rhoden”
  • Catalan: “AR”
  • Cebuano: “Kanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Chinese: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden Chiu”
  • Chinese: “外阿彭策尔州”
  • Chinese: “外阿彭策州”
  • Chinese: “外阿彭策爾州”
  • Chuvash: “Аппенцелль-Аусерроден”
  • Corsican: “AR”
  • Croatian: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Croatian: “AR”
  • Czech: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Czech: “AR”
  • Danish: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Danish: “AR”
  • Dutch: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Dutch: “AR”
  • Esperanto: “Apencelo Ekstera”
  • Esperanto: “AR”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Apencelo Ekstera”
  • Estonian: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Estonian: “Appenzell Ausserrhodeni kanton”
  • Estonian: “AR”
  • Finnish: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Finnish: “AR”
  • French: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • French: “Appenzell extérieur”
  • French: “Appenzell Rhodes-Extérieures”
  • French: “AR”
  • French: “Canton d’Appenzell Rhoden-Extérieur”
  • French: “canton d’Appenzell Rhodes-Extérieures”
  • French: “Canton d’Appenzell Rhodes-Extérieures”
  • French: “Rhodes-Extérieures”
  • Friulian: “AR”
  • Galician: “Appenzell Exterior”
  • Galician: “AR”
  • Georgian: “აპენცელ-აუსერჰოდენის კანტონი”
  • German: “Appenzell A.Rh.”
  • German: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • German: “AR”
  • German: “Ausserrhoden”
  • German: “Kanton Appenzell A.Rh.”
  • German: “Kanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • German: “Kanton Ausserrhoden”
  • Greek: “Απενζέλ Οσερχόντεν”
  • Greek: “Καντόνι του Άπεντσελ Άουσερροντεν”
  • Gujarati: “એપેનઝેલ ઔસરહોડેન”
  • Hebrew: “אפנצל אוסר-רודן”
  • Hindi: “आपनत्सेल आउसारोडन कैन्टन”
  • Hindi: “एपेनज़ेल अस्सेरहोडेन”
  • Hungarian: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden kanton”
  • Hungarian: “AR”
  • Icelandic: “AR”
  • Ido: “AR”
  • Iloko: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Indonesian: “AR”
  • Indonesian: “Kanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Interlingua: “AR”
  • Interlingue: “AR”
  • Interlingue: “Canton de Appenzell-Ausserrhoden”
  • Irish: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Irish: “AR”
  • Irish: “cantún Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Italian: “Appenzello Esterno”
  • Italian: “AR”
  • Italian: “Canton Appenzello Esterno”
  • Japanese: “アッペンツェル・アウサーローデン準州”
  • Javanese: “Kanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Kannada: “ಅಪ್ಪೆನ್ಜೆಲ್ ಆಸೆರ್ಹೊಡೆನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Аппенцелль-Ауссерроден”
  • Kongo: “AR”
  • Korean: “아펜첼아우서로덴 주”
  • Korean: “아펜첼아우서로덴”
  • Korean: “아펜첼아우서로덴주”
  • Kurdish: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Ladin: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Latin: “Abbatis Cella Exterior”
  • Latvian: “Apencelle-Auserrodene”
  • Latvian: “Apencelles-Auserrodenes kantons”
  • Ligurian: “AR”
  • Limburgan: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Limburgan: “AR”
  • Lithuanian: “Apencelis-Auserodenas”
  • Lombard: “Canton Apenzel de Föra”
  • Low German: “AR”
  • Luxembourgish: “AR”
  • Macedonian: “Апенцел Аусероден”
  • Malagasy: “AR”
  • Malay: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Malay: “AR”
  • Marathi: “आपेंझेल आउसरर् होडन”
  • Marathi: “आपेंझेल आउसरर्‍होडन”
  • Mazanderani: “آپنزل آوسرهودن”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden Chiu”
  • Minangkabau: “AR”
  • Narom: “AR”
  • Neapolitan: “AR”
  • Northern Frisian: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Northern Sami: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “AR”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “AR”
  • Norwegian: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “AR”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Canton d’Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Canton d’Appenzell Defòra”
  • Ossetian: “Аппенцелль-Аусерроден”
  • Persian: “آپنتزل آوسرهودن”
  • Persian: “کانتون آپنتسل آوسرهودن”
  • Picard: “AR”
  • Piemontese: “AR”
  • Piemontese: “Canton d’Appenzell Estern”
  • Polish: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Polish: “AR”
  • Portuguese: “Appenzell Exterior”
  • Portuguese: “AR”
  • Pushto: “آفنڅل اوزر هودن”
  • Romanian: “AR”
  • Romanian: “Cantonul Appenzell Extern”
  • Romansh: “Appenzell Dadora”
  • Romansh: “AR”
  • Romansh: “Chantun Appenzell Dadora”
  • Russian: “Аппенцелль-Аусерроден”
  • Russian: “Аппенцелль-Ауссерроден”
  • Sardinian: “AR”
  • Scots: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Scots: “AR”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “AR”
  • Serbian: “AR”
  • Serbian: “Кантон Апенцел Аусероден”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Sicilian: “Appenzellu Sternu”
  • Sicilian: “AR”
  • Sinhala: “ඇපන්සෙල් ඔස්සර්හෝඩෙන්”
  • Slovak: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Slovak: “AR”
  • Slovenian: “AR”
  • Slovenian: “Ausserrhoden”
  • Slovenian: “Kanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Slovenian: “Kanton Ausserrhoden”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آپنتزل آوسرهودن”
  • Spanish: “Appenzell Rodas Exteriores”
  • Spanish: “AR”
  • Spanish: “Canton de Appenzell Rodas Exteriores”
  • Spanish: “Cantón de Appenzell Rodas Exteriores”
  • Swahili: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Swahili: “AR”
  • Swedish: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Swedish: “AR”
  • Swiss German: “AR”
  • Swiss German: “Kantoo Appezäll Osserode”
  • Tamil: “அப்பென்ஸ்ல் ஒஸ்செற்ரஹோடேன்”
  • Telugu: “అపెంజిల్ అసెర్హోడెన్”
  • Thai: “รัฐอัพเพินท์เซ็ลเอาเซอร์โรเดิน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Turkish: “Abbatis Cella Exterior”
  • Turkish: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Turkish: “Appenzell Dadora”
  • Turkish: “Appenzell extérieur”
  • Turkish: “Appenzell Rhodes-Extérieures”
  • Turkish: “Appenzello Esterno”
  • Turkish: “AR”
  • Turkish: “Rhodes-Extérieures”
  • Ukrainian: “Аппенцелль — Ауссерроден”
  • Ukrainian: “Аппенцелль-Ауссерроде”
  • Ukrainian: “Аппенцелль-Ауссерроден”
  • Ukrainian: “Зовнішній Аппенцелль”
  • Urdu: “اپینسیل اوسیررودن”
  • Venetian: “AR”
  • Venetian: “Canton Apenxeło Esterno”
  • Venetian: “Canton Apenzeło Esterno”
  • Vietnamese: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Vietnamese: “AR”
  • Vlaams: “AR”
  • Volapük: “AR”
  • Walloon: “AR”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Welsh: “Appenzell Ausserrhoden”
  • Welsh: “AR”
  • Western Panjabi: “اپنزل آسررہوڈن”
  • Wolof: “AR”
  • Wu Chinese: “外阿彭策尔州”
  • Yue Chinese: “外阿彭策州”
  • Zulu: “AR”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden”. Photo: Wikimedia, GFDL.