Sargans
Sargans is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of Sarganserland in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Sargans is known for its castle, which dates from before the founding of the Swiss Confederation in 1291.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Sargans railway station and Sargans Castle.
Sargans railway station
Railway station
Sargans railway station is a railway station in Sargans, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line and eastern terminus of the Ziegelbrücke–Sargans line. It is served by local, regional, and long-distance trains.
Sargans Castle
Castle
Sargans Castle is a castle in the municipality of Sargans of the Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Gonzen
Peak
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The Gonzen is a 1,830 metres high mountain of the Appenzell Alps, overlooking the Rhine Valley above Sargans, in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mels and Wangs.
Mels
Village
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Mels is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of Sarganserland in the Seeztal, canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Sargans
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Sarganserland, Canton of St. Gallen, Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.0483° or 47° 2′ 54″ northLongitude
9.4402° or 9° 26′ 25″ eastPopulation
6,080Elevation
487 metres (1,598 feet)IATA airport code
ZKAUnited Nations Location Code
CH SAROpen location code
8FVF2CXR+83OpenStreetMap ID
node 30811583OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2658793Wikidata ID
Q64571
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Sargans” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sargans”
- Armenian: “Զարգանս”
- Basque: “Sargans”
- Breton: “Sargans”
- Catalan: “Sargans”
- Cebuano: “Sargans (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Sargans”
- Chinese: “萨尔甘斯”
- Chinese: “薩爾甘斯”
- Chinese: “薩甘斯”
- Czech: “Sargans”
- Dutch: “Sargans”
- Esperanto: “Sargans”
- Esperanto: “Sarganso”
- Finnish: “Sargans”
- French: “Sargans”
- German: “Gemeinde in der Südostschweiz”
- German: “Sargans”
- Hungarian: “Sargans”
- Indonesian: “Sargans”
- Irish: “Sargans”
- Italian: “Sargans”
- Japanese: “サルガンス”
- Japanese: “ザルガンス”
- Kazakh: “Зарганс”
- Korean: “자르간스”
- Kurdish: “Sargans”
- Latin: “Senegaunis”
- Lombard: “Sargans”
- Malay: “Sargans”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sargans”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sargans”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sargans”
- Persian: “سرگان”
- Piemontese: “Sargans”
- Polish: “Sargans”
- Portuguese: “Sargans”
- Romanian: “Sargans”
- Russian: “Зарганс”
- Serbian: “Сарганс (град)”
- Serbian: “Сарганс”
- Spanish: “Sargans”
- Swedish: “Sargans”
- Swiss German: “Sargaas”
- Swiss German: “Sargans”
- Tosk Albanian: “Sargans”
- Turkish: “Sargans”
- Ukrainian: “Зарганс”
- Upper Sorbian: “Sargans”
- Uzbek: “Sargans”
- Uzbek: “Zargans”
- Uzbek: “Зарганс”
- Venetian: “Sargans”
- Vietnamese: “Sargans”
- Volapük: “Sargans”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sargans”
- Welsh: “Sargans”
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