Eastern Switzerland
Canton of St. Gallen
St. Gallen

Saint Gallen

Saint Gallen 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.
Tap on a place
to explore it
stadt.sg.ch
Wikivoyage
Wikipedia
Photo: Schaffhausen, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Type: Town with 78,200 residents
  • Description: capital of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Saint Gall”, “Sankt Gallen”, “St. Gall”, “St. Gallen”, and “St. Gallen SG”
  • Postal codes: 9000, 9008, 9011, 9012, and 9014-9016
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Photo: HaSt, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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 St. Gallen in . The Carolingian-era monastery existed from 719, founded by Saint Othmar on the spot where Saint Gall had erected his hermitage.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The of St Gall is a significant medieval monastic library located in St. Gallen, 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
Photo: MB-one, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the main railway station of the city of St. Gallen, the capital of the in . It is located at the junction of the standard gauge St.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gaiserwald and Teufen AR.

Village
Photo: Taxialex, Public domain.
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.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Teufen is a municipality in the canton of in . is situated 4 km south of Saint Gallen.

Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of in the canton of St. Gallen in . is situated 4 km north of Saint Gallen.

Saint Gallen

Latitude
47.4256° or 47° 25′ 32″ north
Longitude
9.3762° or 9° 22′ 35″ east
Population
78,200
Elevation
684 metres (2,244 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CH QGL
Open location code
8FVFC9GG+6F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240062840
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2658822
Wiki­data ID
Q25607
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Saint Gallen from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Saint Gallen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “St. Gallen”
  • Albanian: “St. Gallen”
  • Arabic: “سانت غالن”
  • Armenian: “Սանկտ Գալլեն”
  • Arpitan: “Sent-Gâl”
  • Asturian: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sankt-Qallen”
  • Basque: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Basque: “St. Gallen”
  • Belarusian: “Санкт-Гален”
  • Breton: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Bulgarian: “Санкт Гален”
  • Catalan: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Cebuano: “Sankt Gallen (kapital sa kanton)”
  • Cebuano: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Chechen: “Санкт-Галлен”
  • Chinese: “St. Gallen”
  • Chinese: “圣加仑”
  • Chinese: “圣加伦”
  • Chinese: “聖加侖”
  • Chinese: “聖加倫”
  • Chuvash: “Санкт-Галлен”
  • Croatian: “St. Gallen”
  • Czech: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Czech: “St. Gallen”
  • Danish: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Danish: “St. Gallen”
  • Dutch: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سانت جالن”
  • Esperanto: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Esperanto: “Sankt-Galo”
  • Esperanto: “St. Gallen”
  • Estonian: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Finnish: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Finnish: “St. Gallen”
  • French: “Saint-Gall”
  • French: “Sankt Gallen”
  • French: “St-Gall”
  • French: “St. Gallen”
  • Galician: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Georgian: “სანკტ-გალენი”
  • Georgian: “სანტ-გალენი”
  • Georgian: “სანქტ-გალენი”
  • Georgian: “სენტ-გალენი”
  • German: “Gallusstadt”
  • German: “Sankt Gallen”
  • German: “St-Gall”
  • German: “St. Gallen”
  • German: “St.Gallen”
  • German: “Stadt St. Gallen”
  • German: “Stadt St.Gallen”
  • Greek: “Σανκτ Γκάλεν”
  • Hebrew: “סנט גאלן”
  • Hungarian: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Hungarian: “St. Gallen”
  • Hungarian: “Szentgallen”
  • Icelandic: “St. Gallen”
  • Iloko: “San Galo”
  • Indonesian: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Indonesian: “St. Gallen”
  • Interlingue: “Sant Gallen”
  • Irish: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Italian: “San Gallo”
  • Italian: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Italian: “St. Gallen”
  • Japanese: “サンクト・ガレン”
  • Japanese: “ザンクト・ガレン”
  • Japanese: “サンクトガレン”
  • Japanese: “ザンクトガレン”
  • Kazakh: “Санкт-Галлен”
  • Korean: “생갈”
  • Korean: “장크트 갈렌”
  • Korean: “장크트갈렌”
  • Kurdish: “St. Gallen”
  • Latin: “Sanctogallum”
  • Latin: “Sangallense coenobium”
  • Latvian: “San Gallo”
  • Latvian: “Sanktgallene”
  • Lithuanian: “Sankt Galenas”
  • Lithuanian: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Lombard: “San Gal”
  • Luxembourgish: “St. Gallen”
  • Maltese: “Saint Gallen”
  • Maltese: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Maltese: “St. Gallen”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “St. Gallen”
  • Mingrelian: “სანქტ-გალენი”
  • Nauru: “St. Gallen”
  • Northern Frisian: “St. Gallen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “St Gallen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “St. Gallen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “St. Gallen”
  • Norwegian: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Ossetian: “Санкт-Галлен”
  • Persian: “سن گلان”
  • Persian: “سنت گالن”
  • Persian: “سن‌گلان”
  • Piemontese: “San Gal”
  • Polish: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Polish: “St. Gallen”
  • Portuguese: “Saint-Gall”
  • Portuguese: “San Gallo”
  • Portuguese: “São Galo”
  • Portuguese: “St. Gallen”
  • Pushto: “سنګالن”
  • Quechua: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Romanian: “St. Gallen”
  • Romansh: “Sogn Gagl”
  • Romansh: “Son Gagl”
  • Russian: “Санкт-Галлен”
  • Scots: “St. Gallen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “St. Gallen”
  • Serbian: “Сан Гален”
  • Serbian: “Санкт Гален”
  • Serbian: “Сент Гален”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “St. Gallen”
  • Sicilian: “San Gallu”
  • Silesian: “St. Gallen”
  • Slovak: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Slovak: “St. Gallen”
  • Slovenian: “St. Gallen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سن‌گلان”
  • Spanish: “Saint Gall”
  • Spanish: “Saint Gallen”
  • Spanish: “San Gall”
  • Spanish: “San Galo”
  • Spanish: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Spanish: “Sankt-Gallen”
  • Spanish: “St Gall”
  • Spanish: “St Gallen”
  • Spanish: “St. Gall”
  • Spanish: “St. Gallen”
  • Spanish: “St.Gall”
  • Spanish: “Tablat SG”
  • Swahili: “St. Gallen”
  • Swedish: “S:t Gallen”
  • Swedish: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Swedish: “St Gallen”
  • Swedish: “St. Gallen”
  • Swiss German: “Sanggale, Gallusstadt”
  • Swiss German: “Sanggale”
  • Swiss German: “Sanggalle”
  • Tagalog: “Saint Gall”
  • Tagalog: “Saint Gallen”
  • Tagalog: “San Galo”
  • Tagalog: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Tagalog: “St. Gall”
  • Tagalog: “St. Gallen”
  • Tatar: “Санкт-Галлен”
  • Thai: “ซังคท์กัลเลิน”
  • Thai: “แซ็ง-กาล”
  • Tosk Albanian: “St. Gallen”
  • Turkish: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Turkish: “St Gallen”
  • Turkish: “St. Gallen”
  • Turkish: “St.Gallen”
  • Ukrainian: “Санкт-Галлен”
  • Ukrainian: “Св. Галлен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “St. Gallen”
  • Urdu: “سانکت گالن”
  • Uzbek: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Uzbek: “Sankt-Gallen”
  • Uzbek: “St. Gallen”
  • Uzbek: “Санкт-Галлен”
  • Venetian: “San Gało”
  • Vietnamese: “St. Gallen”
  • Volapük: “Saint-Gall”
  • Volapük: “San Gallo”
  • Volapük: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Volapük: “St. Gallen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “St. Gallen”
  • Welsh: “St. Gallen”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣加仑”
  • Yue Chinese: “聖加倫”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Saint Gallen”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Klosterhof and Fladepärkli.

Eastern Switzerland: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Glarus, Schaffhausen, Appenzell, and Stein am Rhein.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
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 Wikivoyage page “Saint Gallen”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.