Rapperswil, St. Gallen - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rapperswil | |
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Coordinates: 47°13.6′N 8°49′E / 47.2267°N 8.817°E | |
Country | Switzerland |
Canton | St. Gallen |
District | See-Gaster |
Municipality | Rapperswil-Jona |
Government | |
• Mayor | Stadtpräsident/Stadtammann (list) |
Area | |
• Total | 1.74 km2 (0.67 sq mi) |
Elevation | 409 m (1,342 ft) |
Population (31 December 2018)[1] | |
• Total | 2,618 |
• Density | 1,500/km2 (3,900/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (Central European Time) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time) |
Postal code(s) | 8640 |
SFOS number | 3336 |
Surrounded by | Altendorf (SZ), Freienbach (SZ), Jona, Bollingen, Lachen (SZ) |
Website | www SFSO statistics |
Rapperswil (Swiss German: [ˈrɑpːərʃˌʋiːl] or [ˈrɑpːərsˌʋiːl];[2] short: Rappi) was a municipality in See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It is at the east side of the Lake Zurich (Zürichsee). As of 31 December 2006, 7,601 people lived there.
On 1 January 2007, the municipalities Rapperswil and Jona joined together to become the new municipality called Rapperswil-Jona.[3]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
- ↑ Andres Kristol, Rapperswil SG (See) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS|LSG), Centre de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld/Stuttgart/Wien 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3, p. 727.
- ↑ Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (in German) accessed 23 September 2009
Other websites
[change | change source]Media related to Rapperswil at Wikimedia Commons
- Rapperswil-Jona (official site) (in German)
- Ortsgemeinde Rapperswil-Jona (in German)
- Tourist Information Rapperswil-Jona (in German)
- Rapperswil in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.