Canton of St. Gallen

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The Canton of St. Gallen is a largely German-speaking canton in northeastern Switzerland known for its historic textile industry, the city of St. Gallen with its UNESCO-listed Abbey Library, and its location between Lake Constance and the Alps.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative territorial entity
canton of Switzerland
borders Austria
canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden
surface form: Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden

Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden
Canton of Glarus
canton of Graubünden
surface form: Canton of Graubünden

canton of Schwyz
surface form: Canton of Schwyz

canton of Thurgau
surface form: Canton of Thurgau

Canton of Zürich
Lake Constance
Liechtenstein
capital St. Gallen
contains St. Gallen
surface form: City of St. Gallen

Rheintal (St. Gallen Rhine Valley)
Sarganserland region
See-Gaster region
Toggenburg valley
surface form: Toggenburg region

Wahlkreis St. Gallen
country Switzerland
createdBy Act of Mediation
economySector services
textile manufacturing
tourism
executiveBody Regierungsrat St. Gallen
governmentType cantonal republic
hasAbbeyLibrary Abbey of Saint Gall
surface form: Abbey Library of Saint Gall
hasMunicipalities municipalities of the Canton of St. Gallen
hasUniversity University of St. Gallen
highestPoint Ringelspitz
ISO3166-2Code CH-SG
joinedSwissConfederation 1803
judicialBody Kantonsgericht St. Gallen
knownFor Abbey of Saint Gall
surface form: Abbey Library of Saint Gall

Abbey of Saint Gall
embroidery industry
historic textile industry
languageRegion German-speaking Switzerland
legislature Kantonsrat St. Gallen
locatedBy Lake Constance
locatedIn northeastern Switzerland
locatedInMountainRange Alps
officialLanguage German
religionHistoricallyDominant Roman Catholicism
religionHistoricallyPresent Protestantism
timeZone Central European Time
timeZoneDST Central European Summer Time
UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteWithin Abbey of Saint Gall
vehicleRegistrationCode SG

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Huldrych Zwingli birthPlace Canton of St. Gallen
A1 motorway (Switzerland) passesThrough Canton of St. Gallen
this entity surface form: canton of St. Gallen
Davos partOf Canton of St. Gallen
this entity surface form: Landquart District (historical)
Wildhaus locatedIn Canton of St. Gallen
this entity surface form: canton of St. Gallen
Alpine Rhine flowsThrough Canton of St. Gallen
Lake Zurich locatedIn Canton of St. Gallen
this entity surface form: canton of St. Gallen
Bad Ragaz locatedIn Canton of St. Gallen
this entity surface form: canton of St. Gallen
Bad Ragaz locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Canton of St. Gallen
this entity surface form: Wahlkreis Sarganserland
Canton of Zürich borderedBy Canton of St. Gallen
Konstanz (district) borders Canton of St. Gallen
this entity surface form: St. Gallen (canton)
Schweizerische Nordostbahn servedCanton Canton of St. Gallen
A1 passesThroughCanton Canton of St. Gallen
subject surface form: A1 (Swiss motorway)
this entity surface form: St. Gallen (canton)
St. Margrethen locatedIn Canton of St. Gallen
this entity surface form: canton of St. Gallen
Swiss cantons include Canton of St. Gallen
FC St. Gallen primaryFanBaseLocation Canton of St. Gallen
this entity surface form: St. Gallen region
Thur River flowsThrough Canton of St. Gallen
this entity surface form: canton of St. Gallen
Thur River hasSourceIn Canton of St. Gallen
this entity surface form: canton of St. Gallen
St. Gallen locatedIn Canton of St. Gallen
this entity surface form: canton of St. Gallen
First War of Kappel belligerent Canton of St. Gallen
Rorschach–Heiden rack railway locatedIn Canton of St. Gallen
this entity surface form: canton of St. Gallen
Grub (AR) bordersCanton Canton of St. Gallen
this entity surface form: canton of St. Gallen
Glarus borders Canton of St. Gallen
Schwyz borderedBy Canton of St. Gallen
Grisons borderedBy Canton of St. Gallen
Thurgau borderedBy Canton of St. Gallen
Toggenburg locatedIn Canton of St. Gallen
this entity surface form: canton of St. Gallen
district of Toggenburg locatedIn Canton of St. Gallen
this entity surface form: canton of St. Gallen
Nesslau-Krummenau countrySubdivision Canton of St. Gallen
this entity surface form: Wahlkreis Toggenburg