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.
- State with about 42,100 residents
- …is abbreviated as “GL”
- Description: canton of Switzerland
- Also known as“Canton of Glarus”“CH051”“GL”“Kanton Glarus”
- Neighbors: Graubünden
Places of Interest
Highlights include Garichtisee and Berglimattsee.
Garichtisee
Reservoir
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Schwanden railway station
Railway station
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schwanden and Engi.
Glarus
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Latitude
46.9797° or 46° 58′ 47″ north
Longitude
9.1088° or 9° 6′ 32″ east
Open location code
8FRFX4H5+VG
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Glarus” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kanton Glarus”
- Albanian: “Kantoni Glarus”
- Amharic: “ግላራስ”
- Arabic: “غلاروس”
- Arabic: “كانتون غلاروس”
- Aragonese: “Cantón de Glaris”
- Armenian: “Գլարուս (կանտոն)”
- Armenian: “Գլարուս”
- Arpitan: “Gllaris”
- Arpitan: “Quenton de Gllaris”
- Asturian: “Cantón de Glaris”
- Azerbaijani: “Glarus”
- 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: “格拉魯斯州”
- Chuvash: “Гларус”
- Croatian: “Glarus”
- Czech: “Glarus”
- Danish: “Kanton Glarus”
- Dutch: “Glarus”
- Dutch: “Kanton Glarus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كانتون جلاروس”
- Esperanto: “Glaruso”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Glaruso”
- Estonian: “Glaruse kanton”
- Finnish: “Glarus”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Glarus”
- 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”
- Kirghiz: “Гларус”
- Korean: “글라루스 주”
- Korean: “글라루스”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Glarus”
- Ossetian: “Гларус (кантон)”
- Ossetian: “Гларус”
- Panjabi: “ਗਲਾਰਸ”
- Persian: “کانتون گلاروس”
- Persian: “گلاروس”
- Polish: “Glarus”
- Portuguese: “Glarus”
- Pushto: “ګلاروس”
- 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”
- Somali: “Glarus”
- South Azerbaijani: “قلاروس”
- South Azerbaijani: “گلاروس”
- Spanish: “Cantón de Glaris”
- Spanish: “GL”
- Spanish: “Glaris”
- Swahili: “Jimbo la Glarus”
- Swedish: “Glarus”
- Swiss German: “Kanton Glarus”
- Swiss German: “Kantuu Glaris”
- Tajik: “Гларус”
- Tamil: “கண்டோம் ஆப் கிளறுஸ்”
- Tatar: “Гларус”
- Telugu: “కాంటన్ ఆఫ్ గ్లారస్”
- Thai: “รัฐกลารุส”
- Turkish: “canton de Glaris”
- Turkish: “GL”
- Turkish: “Glaris”
- Turkish: “Glarona”
- Turkish: “Glaruna”
- Turkish: “Glarus kantonu”
- Turkish: “Glarus”
- Ukrainian: “Гларус”
- Ukrainian: “Ґларус”
- 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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