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Places worth the detour in Canton of St. Gallen

Detourmap lists 38 places in Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Walensee. 23 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature35 Archaeological3
Places
38
Little known
23 of 38
Share of Switzerland
4%

Canton of St. Gallen 38

All 38, best known first.

Elsewhere in Switzerland

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Canton of St. Gallen?

Walensee. Lake in Switzerland. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Canton of St. Gallen?

38: 35 nature & landscapes and 3 archaeological & historic sites. 23 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What counts as Canton of St. Gallen here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Canton of St. Gallen if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Canton of St. Gallen is a first-level division of Switzerland, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.