Zug
Zug is a town of 31,345 people in the Zurich region of Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zug. This article also covers the neighbouring town of Cham.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Alexey M., CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 29,300 residents
- Description: capital of the canton of Zug, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Zug, ZG”
- Postal code: 6300
Places of Interest
Highlights include Zug railway station and Zytturm.
Zug railway station
Railway station
Photo: Baikonur, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zug railway station serves the municipality of Zug, the capital city of the canton of Zug, Switzerland. Opened in 1897, the station is owned and operated by Swiss Federal Railways.
Zytturm
Photo: Baikonur, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Zytturm is a 13th-century tower in Zug, Switzerland, which houses an astronomical clock. The tower, which is 52 metres high, is located on Kolinplatz in the old town centre.
Bossard Arena
Stadium
Photo: Skymotion.ch, CC BY 3.0.
OYM Hall is an indoor sporting arena located in Zug, Switzerland. The capacity of the arena is 7,800 spectators and opened in 2010. It hosts indoor sporting events such as ice hockey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Baar and Steinhausen.
Baar
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Baar is a municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland.
Steinhausen
Village
Photo: Frozenbubble, CC BY-SA 2.0 de.
Steinhausen is a city in the canton of Zug in Switzerland. Steinhausen is situated 4 km northwest of Zug.
Zug
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland, city, cantonal capital of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Canton of Zug, Zurich, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.168° or 47° 10′ 5″ northLongitude
8.5174° or 8° 31′ 3″ eastPopulation
29,300Elevation
425 metres (1,394 feet)IATA airport code
ZLMUnited Nations Location Code
CH ZLMOpen location code
8FVC5G98+5WOpenStreetMap ID
node 60404417OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2657908Wikidata ID
Q68144
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Zug” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Cug”
- Albanian: “Cugi”
- Albanian: “Zug”
- Arabic: “زوغ”
- Armenian: “Ցուգ (քաղաք)”
- Armenian: “Ցուգ”
- Asturian: “Zug”
- Azerbaijani: “Zuq”
- Basque: “Zug”
- Belarusian: “Цуг (горад)”
- Belarusian: “Цуг”
- Breton: “Zug”
- Bulgarian: “Цуг”
- Catalan: “Zug”
- Cebuano: “Zug (kapital sa kanton)”
- Cebuano: “Zug”
- Chavacano: “Zug”
- Chechen: “Цуг”
- Chinese: “Zug”
- Chinese: “楚格”
- Chuvash: “Цуг”
- Corsican: “Zugu”
- Croatian: “Zug”
- Czech: “Zug”
- Danish: “Zug”
- Dutch: “Zug”
- Egyptian Arabic: “زوج”
- Esperanto: “urbo Zug”
- Esperanto: “urbo Zugo”
- Esperanto: “Zug ZG”
- Esperanto: “Zug”
- Esperanto: “Zugo”
- Estonian: “Zug”
- Finnish: “Zug”
- French: “Zoug”
- Galician: “Zug”
- German: “Stadt Zug”
- German: “Zug”
- Greek: “Τσουγκ”
- Hebrew: “צוג”
- Hungarian: “Zug”
- Icelandic: “Zug”
- Indonesian: “Zoug”
- Indonesian: “Zug”
- Interlingue: “Zug”
- Irish: “Zug”
- Italian: “Zugo”
- Japanese: “ツーク”
- Kazakh: “Цуг”
- Korean: “추크”
- Kurdish: “Zug”
- Latin: “Tugium”
- Latvian: “Cūga”
- Lithuanian: “Cugas”
- Lithuanian: “Cūgas”
- Lombard: “Zug”
- Luxembourgish: “Zug”
- Macedonian: “Цуг”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Zug”
- Northern Frisian: “Zug”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zug”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byen Zug”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zug”
- Norwegian: “Zug”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Zug”
- Persian: “زوگ”
- Piemontese: “Zug”
- Piemontese: “Zugo”
- Polish: “Zug”
- Portuguese: “Zug”
- Portuguese: “Zugo”
- Romanian: “Zug”
- Romansh: “Zug”
- Russian: “Цуг”
- Scots: “Zug”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Zug”
- Serbian: “Zug”
- Serbian: “Цуг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zug”
- Sicilian: “Zugu”
- Slovak: “Zug”
- Slovenian: “Zug”
- South Azerbaijani: “زوگ”
- Spanish: “Zoug”
- Spanish: “Zug”
- Swedish: “Zug”
- Swiss German: “Zug ZG”
- Swiss German: “Zug”
- Thai: “ซูค”
- Tosk Albanian: “Zug”
- Turkish: “Zug”
- Ukrainian: “Цуг”
- Ukrainian: “Цуґ”
- Upper Sorbian: “Zug”
- Urdu: “تسوگ”
- Venetian: “Xugo”
- Vietnamese: “Zug”
- Volapük: “Zug”
- Waray (Philippines): “Zug”
- Welsh: “Zug”
- Western Panjabi: “سوگ”
- Wu Chinese: “楚格”
- “Zug”
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