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.
Photo: Tilman AB, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 8,210 residents
- Description: capital of the canton of Nidwalden, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Shtans”, “Stans NW”, “Станс”, and “史坦斯”
- Postal code: 6370
Places of Interest
Highlights: Stans railway station and Stanserhornbahn bottom station.
Stans railway station
Railway station
Government building, former bank building
Public building
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oberdorf and Ennetmoos.
Oberdorf
Village
Photo: Neithan90, Public domain.
Stans
Latitude
46.9571° or 46° 57′ 25″ north
Longitude
8.3661° or 8° 21′ 58″ east
Population
8,210
Elevation
453 metres (1,486 feet)
UN/LOCODE
CH SAN
Open location code
8FRCX948+RC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Stans” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Stans”
- Amharic: “ስታንስ”
- Arabic: “ستانس”
- Aragonese: “Stans”
- Armenian: “Շտանս”
- Azerbaijani: “Stans”
- Basque: “Stans”
- Belarusian: “Штанс”
- Bengali: “স্ট্যান্স”
- Breton: “Stans”
- Bulgarian: “Щанс”
- Catalan: “Stans”
- Cebuano: “Stans (kapital sa kanton)”
- Cebuano: “Stans”
- Chechen: “Штанс”
- Chinese: “施坦斯”
- Chuvash: “Штанс”
- Croatian: “Stans”
- Czech: “Stans”
- Danish: “Stans”
- Dutch: “Stans”
- Esperanto: “Stans”
- Finnish: “Stans”
- French: “Stans”
- Galician: “Stans”
- German: “Stans”
- Greek: “Στανς”
- Hausa: “Stans”
- Hebrew: “סטאנס”
- Hindi: “श्टांस”
- Hindi: “स्टांस”
- Hungarian: “Stans”
- Indonesian: “Stans”
- Irish: “Stans”
- Italian: “Stans”
- Japanese: “シュタンス”
- Javanese: “Stans”
- Kazakh: “Штанс”
- Kirghiz: “Штанс”
- Korean: “슈탄스”
- Kurdish: “Stans”
- Latin: “Stannis”
- Latin: “Tannis”
- Lithuanian: “Štansas”
- Lombard: “Stans”
- Luxembourgish: “Stans”
- Malay: “Stans”
- Northern Frisian: “Stans”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Stans”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stans”
- Norwegian: “Stans”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Stans”
- Oromo: “Stans”
- Panjabi: “ਸਤਾਨਸ”
- Persian: “اشتانس”
- Persian: “ستان، سوئیس”
- Piemontese: “Stans”
- Polish: “Stans”
- Portuguese: “Stans”
- Pushto: “سټانس”
- Romanian: “Stans”
- Russian: “Штанс”
- Scots: “Stans”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Stans”
- Serbian: “Штанс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Stans”
- Slovak: “Stans”
- Slovenian: “Stans”
- Somali: “Stans”
- Spanish: “Stans”
- Swahili: “Stans”
- Swedish: “Stans”
- Swiss German: “Stans”
- Tajik: “Штанс”
- Tatar: “Штанс”
- Turkish: “Stans”
- Ukrainian: “Штанс”
- Upper Sorbian: “Stans”
- Urdu: “شتانس”
- Uzbek: “Stans”
- Venetian: “Stans”
- Volapük: “Stans”
- Waray (Philippines): “Stans”
- Welsh: “Stans”
- Western Panjabi: “زٹانز”
- Wu Chinese: “施坦斯”
- “Stans”
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