Glarus
The canton of Glarus is a canton in east-central Switzerland. The capital is Glarus. The population speaks a variety of Alemannic German. The majority of the population identifies as Christian, about evenly split between Protestants and Catholics.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: State with 40,900 residents
- Description: canton of Switzerland
- Also known as: “Canton of Glarus”, “CH051”, “GL”, and “Kanton Glarus”
- Neighbors: Graubünden
Places of Interest
Highlights include Garichtisee and Berglimattsee.
Garichtisee
Reservoir
Photo: Moritz Schmaltz, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Garichtisee, also known as Mettmensee, is a reservoir on Mettmenalp above Schwanden in the Canton of Glarus, Switzerland. The lake's surface area is 16 ha.
Berglimattsee
Lake
Photo: MRB, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Berglimattsee is a lake in the protected area Freiberg Kärpf on municipal territory of Glarus Süd in the Swiss canton of Glarus. The lake lies at 2,157 m on a small plateau near the Gandfurggele, a col between the Garichtisee in the upper Niderental in the west and the Berglialp and the Sernftal in the east.
Schwanden railway station
Railway station
Schwanden railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Glarus Süd in the Swiss canton of Glarus. It is an intermediate stop on the Weesen to Linthal railway line, and serves the village of Schwanden.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schwanden and Engi.
Schwanden
Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Schwanden is a village, and former municipality, in the municipality of Glarus Süd and canton of Glarus in Switzerland.
Engi
Village
Photo: Waldteufel78, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Engi is a village, and former municipality, in the municipality of Glarus Süd and canton of Glarus in Switzerland. The village lies in the valley of the Sernf river, and consists of the three adjacent village parts of Engi-Vorderdorf, Engi-Dörfli and Engi-Hinterdorf.
Sool
Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sool is a village, and former municipality, in the municipality of Glarus Süd and canton of Glarus in Switzerland.
Glarus
- Categories: canton of Switzerland, federated state, administrative territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.9797° or 46° 58′ 47″ northLongitude
9.1088° or 9° 6′ 32″ eastPopulation
40,900Elevation
1,118 metres (3,668 feet)Abbreviation
“GL”Open location code
8FRFX4H5+VGOpenStreetMap ID
node 313872884OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Glarus” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kanton Glarus”
- Albanian: “Kantoni Glarus”
- Arabic: “غلاروس”
- Arabic: “كانتون غلاروس”
- Aragonese: “Cantón de Glaris”
- Armenian: “Գլարուս (կանտոն)”
- Armenian: “Գլարուս”
- Arpitan: “Gllaris”
- Arpitan: “Quenton de Gllaris”
- Asturian: “Cantón de Glaris”
- Balinese: “Kanton Glarus”
- Basque: “Glaris kantonamendua”
- Belarusian: “Гларус (кантон)”
- Belarusian: “Гларус”
- Belarusian: “Глярус”
- Belarusian: “кантон Гларус”
- Bengali: “ক্যান্টন অব গ্লারুস”
- Bosnian: “Glarus”
- Breton: “Kanton Glarus”
- Bulgarian: “Гларус”
- Catalan: “Cantó de Glarus”
- Cebuano: “Kanton Glarus”
- Chinese: “Glarus Chiu”
- Chinese: “格拉魯斯州”
- Chuvash: “Гларус”
- Croatian: “Glarus”
- Czech: “Glarus”
- Danish: “Kanton Glarus”
- Dutch: “Glarus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كانتون جلاروس”
- Esperanto: “Glaruso”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Glaruso”
- Estonian: “Glaruse kanton”
- Finnish: “Glarus”
- French: “canton de Glaris”
- French: “Canton de Glaris”
- French: “Canton de Glarus”
- French: “GL”
- French: “Glaris”
- French: “Glarus”
- Galician: “Cantón de Glarus”
- Georgian: “გლარუსის კანტონი”
- German: “GL”
- German: “Glarus”
- German: “Kanton Glarus”
- Greek: “Κάντον οφ Γκλάρους”
- Greek: “Καντόνι του Γκλάρους”
- Gujarati: “કેન્ટન ઓફ ગ્લેરુસ”
- Hebrew: “גלארוס”
- Hebrew: “גלרוס”
- Hebrew: “קנטון גלארוס”
- Hebrew: “קנטון גלרוס”
- Hindi: “ग्लारुस कैन्टन”
- Hindi: “ग्लारुस छावनी”
- Hungarian: “Glarus kanton”
- Icelandic: “Glarus”
- Iloko: “Glarus”
- Iloko: “Kanton ti Glarus”
- Inari Sami: “Glarus kanton”
- Indonesian: “Kanton Glarus”
- Interlingua: “Canton de Glarus”
- Interlingue: “Canton de Glarus”
- Irish: “cantún Glarus”
- Italian: “Canton Glarona”
- Italian: “GL”
- Italian: “Glarona”
- Japanese: “グラールス州”
- Javanese: “Canton Glarus”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ಲಾರಸ್ ಕ್ಯಾಂಟನ್”
- Kazakh: “Гларус”
- Korean: “글라루스 주”
- Korean: “글라루스”
- Korean: “글라루스주”
- Kurdish: “Glarus (kanton)”
- Kurdish: “Glarus”
- Ladin: “Cianton de Glarus”
- Latin: “Glarona”
- Latvian: “Glarusas kantons”
- Limburgan: “Glarus”
- Lingala: “Kanton ya Glarus”
- Lithuanian: “Glaruso kantonas”
- Lombard: “Canton Glarona”
- Luxembourgish: “GL”
- Luxembourgish: “Glarus”
- Luxembourgish: “Kanton Glaris”
- Luxembourgish: “Kanton Glarus”
- Macedonian: “Гларус”
- Malay: “Canton of Glarus”
- Marathi: “ग्लारुस”
- Mazanderani: “گلاروس کانتون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Glarus Chiu”
- Northern Frisian: “Glarus”
- Northern Sami: “Glarus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Glarus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kantonen Glarus”
- Norwegian: “Glarus”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Canton de Glarona”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Canton de Glarus”
- Ossetian: “Гларус (кантон)”
- Ossetian: “Гларус”
- Persian: “کانتون گلاروس”
- Persian: “گلاروس”
- Polish: “Glarus”
- Portuguese: “Glarus”
- Romanian: “Cantonul Glarus”
- Romansh: “Chantun Glaruna”
- Romansh: “Glaruna”
- Russian: “Гларус”
- Scots: “Canton o Glarus”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Glarus”
- Serbian: “Кантон Гларус”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Glarus”
- Sicilian: “Canton Glarona”
- Sinhala: “ග්ලරස් කලාපය”
- Slovak: “Glarus”
- Slovenian: “GL”
- Slovenian: “Glarus”
- Slovenian: “Kanton Glarus”
- South Azerbaijani: “قلاروس”
- South Azerbaijani: “گلاروس”
- Spanish: “Canton de Glaris”
- Spanish: “Cantón de Glaris”
- Spanish: “GL”
- Spanish: “Glaris”
- Swahili: “Jimbo la Glarus”
- Swedish: “Glarus”
- Swiss German: “Kantuu Glaris”
- Tamil: “கண்டோம் ஆப் கிளறுஸ்”
- Telugu: “కాంటన్ ఆఫ్ గ్లారస్”
- Thai: “รัฐกลารุส”
- Tosk Albanian: “Kanton Glarus”
- Turkish: “canton de Glaris”
- Turkish: “GL”
- Turkish: “Glaris”
- Turkish: “Glarona”
- Turkish: “Glaruna”
- Turkish: “Glarus kantonu”
- Turkish: “Glarus”
- Ukrainian: “Гларус”
- Urdu: “کینٹن گلاروس”
- Uzbek: “Glarus”
- Venetian: “Canton Glarona”
- Vietnamese: “GL”
- Vietnamese: “Glarus”
- Waray (Philippines): “Glarus”
- Welsh: “Glarus”
- Western Panjabi: “گلارس”
- Wu Chinese: “格拉鲁斯州”
- Yue Chinese: “格拉魯斯州”
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