Stans
Stans is the capital of the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland. The official language of Stans is German, but the main language is the local variant of Alemannic Swiss German.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 8,210 residents
- Description: municipality in, and capital of, the Swiss canton of Nidwalden
- Also known as: “Stans NW”
- Postal code: 6370
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stans railway station and Government building, former bank building.
Stans railway station
Railway station
Photo: Moliva, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stans is a Swiss railway station in the municipality of Stans in the canton of Nidwalden. It is on the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line, owned by the Zentralbahn railway company.
Government building, former bank building
Public building
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Government building, former bank building is a public building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oberdorf and Ennetmoos.
Oberdorf
Village
Photo: Neithan90, Public domain.
Oberdorf is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland. It consists of the villages and hamlets of Wil, Ennerberg, Waltersberg, Büren nid dem Bach and Niederrickenbach.
Ennetmoos
Village
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Ennetmoos is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland.
Stansstad
Village
Photo: Thisisbossi, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Stansstad is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland.
Stans
Latitude
46.9571° or 46° 57′ 25″ northLongitude
8.3661° or 8° 21′ 58″ eastPopulation
8,210Elevation
453 metres (1,486 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH SANOpen location code
8FRCX948+RCOpenStreetMap ID
node 181328750OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Stans” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Shtans”
- Albanian: “Stans”
- Arabic: “ستانس”
- Armenian: “Շտանս”
- Basque: “Stans”
- Belarusian: “Штанс”
- Breton: “Stans”
- Bulgarian: “Щанс”
- Catalan: “Stans”
- Cebuano: “Stans (kapital sa kanton)”
- Cebuano: “Stans”
- Chechen: “Штанс”
- Chinese: “史坦斯”
- Chinese: “施坦斯”
- Chuvash: “Штанс”
- Croatian: “Stans”
- Czech: “Stans”
- Danish: “Stans”
- Dutch: “Stans”
- Esperanto: “Stans”
- Finnish: “Stans”
- French: “Stans”
- Galician: “Stans”
- German: “Stans NW”
- German: “Stans”
- Greek: “Στανς”
- Hebrew: “סטאנס”
- Hungarian: “Stans”
- Indonesian: “Stans”
- Irish: “Stans”
- Italian: “Stans”
- Japanese: “シュタンス”
- Kazakh: “Штанс”
- Korean: “슈탄스”
- Kurdish: “Stans”
- Latin: “Stannis”
- Latin: “Stans”
- Latin: “Tannis”
- Lithuanian: “Štansas”
- Lombard: “Stans”
- Northern Frisian: “Stans”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Stans”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stans”
- Norwegian: “Stans”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Stans”
- Persian: “اشتانس”
- Persian: “ستان، سوئیس”
- Piemontese: “Stans”
- Polish: “Stans”
- Portuguese: “Stans”
- Romanian: “Stans”
- Russian: “Штанс”
- Scots: “Stans”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Stans”
- Serbian: “Stans”
- Serbian: “Штанс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Stans”
- Slovak: “Stans”
- Slovenian: “Stans”
- Spanish: “Stans”
- Swedish: “Stans”
- Swiss German: “Stans”
- Tosk Albanian: “Stans”
- Turkish: “Stans”
- Ukrainian: “Станс”
- Ukrainian: “Штанс”
- Upper Sorbian: “Stans”
- Urdu: “شتانس”
- Uzbek: “Shtans”
- Uzbek: “Stans”
- Uzbek: “Штанс”
- Venetian: “Stans”
- Volapük: “Stans”
- Waray (Philippines): “Stans”
- Welsh: “Stans”
- Western Panjabi: “زٹانز”
- Wu Chinese: “施坦斯”
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