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.
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  • Type: City with 78,200 residents
  • Description: capital of the canton of St. Gallen, 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
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Abbey of Saint Gall and St. Gallen railway station.

Monastery
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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.

Railway station
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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.

Church
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The Stiftskirche St. Gallus und Otmar is a church in the city of St. Gallen, . Once part of the Abbey of St. Gall, it has been the cathedral of the Diocese of St.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gaiserwald and Teufen AR.

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.

Village
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Teufen is a municipality in the canton of in .

Town
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is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of in the canton of St. Gallen in .

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=­city
Geo­Names ID
2658822
Wiki­data ID
Q25607
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Saint Gallen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “St. Gallen”
  • Albanian: “St. Gallen”
  • Amharic: “ቅዱስ ጋሌን”
  • Arabic: “سانت غالن”
  • Aragonese: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Armenian: “Սանկտ Գալլեն”
  • Arpitan: “Sent-Gâl”
  • Asturian: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sankt Qallen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sankt-Qallen”
  • Basque: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Basque: “St. Gallen”
  • Belarusian: “Санкт-Гален”
  • Bengali: “সেন্ট গ্যালেন”
  • 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”
  • Czech: “Svatý Havel”
  • 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”
  • Hausa: “Saint Gallen”
  • Hebrew: “סנט גאלן”
  • Hindi: “ज़ांक्त गालन”
  • Hindi: “सेंट गैलन”
  • 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”
  • Javanese: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Kazakh: “Санкт-Галлен”
  • Kirghiz: “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”
  • Malagasy: “St.Gallen”
  • Malay: “Sankt 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”
  • Oromo: “Saint Gallen”
  • Ossetian: “Санкт-Галлен”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੇਂਟ ਗੈਲਨ”
  • Persian: “سن گلان”
  • Persian: “سنت گالن”
  • Persian: “سن‌گلان”
  • Piemontese: “San Gal”
  • Polish: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Polish: “St. Gallen”
  • Portuguese: “Saint-Gall”
  • Portuguese: “San Gallo”
  • Portuguese: “Sankt Gallen”
  • Portuguese: “São Galo”
  • Portuguese: “St. Gallen”
  • Pushto: “سنګالن”
  • Pushto: “سینټ ګالن”
  • 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”
  • Somali: “Saint 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: “Saint Gallen”
  • 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”
  • Tajik: “Санкт-Галлен”
  • 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: “Санкт-Ґаллен”
  • Ukrainian: “Св. Галлен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “St. Gallen”
  • Urdu: “سانکت گالن”
  • Urdu: “سینٹ گیلن”
  • 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”
  • “St. Gallen”

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