Sarnen
Sarnen is the capital of the canton of Obwalden and sits on the shore of Lake Sarnen. Sarnen is an ideal starting point for numerous excursions by train, car or bike; a variety of sports can be practised here or in the immediate vicinity.
- Type: Town with 10,200 residents
- Description: capital of the canton of Obwalden, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Kägiswil”, “Ramersberg”, “Sarnen (munisipyo)”, “Sarnen OW”, “Sarno OW”, “Stalden”, “Wilen”, and “Сарнен”
- Postal code: 6060
Places of Interest
Highlights: Sarnen railway station and Hexenturm.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kerns and Sachseln.
Sarnen
Latitude
46.8957° or 46° 53′ 44″ north
Longitude
8.2461° or 8° 14′ 46″ east
Population
10,200
Elevation
473 metres (1,552 feet)
IATA airport code
ZKC
UN/LOCODE
CH SNN
Open location code
8FRCV6WW+7F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Sarnen” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Sarnen”
- Amharic: “ሳርነን”
- Arabic: “سارنين”
- Aragonese: “Sarnen”
- Armenian: “Զարնեն”
- Azerbaijani: “Sarnen”
- Basque: “Sarnen”
- Belarusian: “Зарнен”
- Belarusian: “Зарнэн”
- Bengali: “সার্নেন”
- Breton: “Sarnen”
- Bulgarian: “Зарнен”
- Catalan: “Sarnen”
- Cebuano: “Sarnen”
- Chechen: “Зарнен”
- Chinese: “萨尔嫩”
- Chinese: “薩爾嫩”
- Chuvash: “Зарнен”
- Croatian: “Sarnen”
- Czech: “Sarnen”
- Danish: “Sarnen”
- Dutch: “Sarnen”
- Esperanto: “Sarno”
- Finnish: “Sarnen”
- French: “Sarnen”
- Galician: “Sarnen”
- German: “Sarnen”
- Greek: “Ζάρνεν”
- Hausa: “Sarnen”
- Hebrew: “זארנן”
- Hebrew: “סרנן”
- Hindi: “ज़ार्नन”
- Hindi: “सर्नेन”
- Hungarian: “Sarnen”
- Indonesian: “Sarnen”
- Irish: “Sarnen”
- Italian: “Sarnen”
- Japanese: “ザルネン”
- Javanese: “Sarnen”
- Kazakh: “Зарнен”
- Kirghiz: “Зарнен”
- Korean: “자르넨”
- Kurdish: “Sarnen”
- Latin: “Sarnen”
- Lithuanian: “Zarnenas”
- Lombard: “Sarnen”
- Luxembourgish: “Sarnen”
- Macedonian: “Зарнен”
- Malay: “Sarnen”
- Northern Frisian: “Sarnen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sarnen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sarnen”
- Norwegian: “Sarnen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sarnen”
- Oromo: “Sarnen”
- Panjabi: “ਸਾਰਨੇਨ”
- Persian: “سرنان”
- Piemontese: “Sarnen”
- Polish: “Sarnen”
- Portuguese: “Sarnen”
- Pushto: “سارنن”
- Romanian: “Sarnen”
- Russian: “Зарнен”
- Scots: “Sarnen”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sarnen”
- Serbian: “Зарнен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sarnen”
- Slovak: “Sarnen”
- Slovenian: “Sarnen”
- Somali: “Sarnen”
- Spanish: “Sarnen”
- Swahili: “Sarnen”
- Swedish: “Sarnen”
- Swiss German: “Saarne”
- Swiss German: “Sarnen”
- Tajik: “Зарнен”
- Tatar: “Зарнен”
- Thai: “ซาร์เนิน”
- Turkish: “Sarnen”
- Ukrainian: “Зарнен”
- Upper Sorbian: “Sarnen”
- Urdu: “زارنن”
- Uzbek: “Sarnen”
- Venetian: “Sarnen”
- Volapük: “Sarnen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sarnen”
- Welsh: “Sarnen”
- Western Panjabi: “سرنین”
- Wu Chinese: “萨尔嫩”
- “Sarnen”
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