Schaan
Schaan is the largest municipality of Liechtenstein by population. It is located to the north of Vaduz, the capital, in the central part of the country.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Schaan-Vaduz railway station and Schalun Castle.
Schaan-Vaduz railway station
Railway station
Photo: JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schaan-Vaduz is one of the four train stations serving Liechtenstein, located in the town of Schaan, 3.5 km from Vaduz. It is owned by the Austrian Federal Railways.
Schalun Castle
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schalun Castle, also known colloquially as Wildschloss, is a castle ruin located in the municipality of Vaduz, Liechtenstein. It lies in the mountains, roughly 1 kilometer to the northeast from the town centre of Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein.
Kuhgrat
Peak
Photo: Ramessos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kuhgrat is the highest of a group of three peaks known as the Drei Schwestern in the Rätikon range in the Eastern Alps which between them form part of the Austria-Liechtenstein border. It reaches a height of 2,123 metres.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vaduz and Buchs.
Vaduz
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Vaduz is the capital city of Liechtenstein and has a population of 5,700. It's home to the prince's castle and his museums, and thus the main point of interest for visitors to this small country.
Buchs
Town
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. Buchs is situated 4 km west of Schaan.
Schaan
- Also known as: “Gemeinde Schaan”
- Location: Liechtenstein, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.1743° or 47° 10′ 28″ northLongitude
9.524° or 9° 31′ 26″ eastPopulation
6,040Elevation
499 metres (1,637 feet)Open location code
8FVF5GFF+PJGeoNames ID
3042042
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Schaan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شان ، ليختنشتاين”
- Aragonese: “Schaan”
- Armenian: “Շան”
- Asturian: “Schaan”
- Azerbaijani: “Şan”
- Basque: “Schaan”
- Belarusian: “Шан”
- Bulgarian: “Шаан”
- Catalan: “Schaan”
- Cebuano: “Schaan”
- Chechen: “Шан”
- Chinese: “沙恩”
- Czech: “Schaan”
- Danish: “Schaan”
- Dutch: “Schaan”
- Esperanto: “Schaan”
- Finnish: “Schaan”
- French: “Schaan”
- Galician: “Schaan”
- German: “Schaan”
- Greek: “Σάαν”
- Guarani: “Schaan”
- Hebrew: “שאן”
- Hungarian: “Schaan”
- Inari Sami: “Schaan”
- Indonesian: “Schaan”
- Italian: “Schaan”
- Japanese: “シャーン”
- Korean: “샨”
- Latin: “Schaan”
- Lithuanian: “Šanas”
- Lombard: “Schaan”
- Macedonian: “Шан”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Schaan”
- Mongolian: “Шаан”
- Nauru: “Schaan”
- Northern Frisian: “Schaan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Schaan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Schaan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Schaan”
- Persian: “شان”
- Polish: “Schaan”
- Portuguese: “Schaan”
- Pushto: “شان”
- Romanian: “Schaan”
- Romansh: “Schaan”
- Russian: “Шан”
- Scots: “Schaan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Schaan”
- Serbian: “Шан”
- Sicilian: “Schaan”
- Slovak: “Schaan”
- Spanish: “Schaan”
- Swedish: “Schaan”
- Swiss German: “Schaa”
- Thai: “ชาน”
- Turkish: “Schaan”
- Ukrainian: “Шаан”
- Urdu: “شان، لیختینستائن”
- Venetian: “Schaan”
- Vietnamese: “Schaan”
- Vlaams: “Schaan”
- Volapük: “Schaan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Schaan”
- Welsh: “Schaan”
- Western Panjabi: “شآن”
- Wu Chinese: “沙恩”
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