Canton of Obwalden
Obwalden or Obwald is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of seven municipalities and the seat of the government and parliament is in Sarnen.Photo: FkMohr, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Notable Places in the Area
Lake Sarnen
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lake Sarnen is a lake in the Swiss canton of Obwalden.
Sachseln railway station
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sachseln railway station is a Swiss railway station on the Brünig line, owned by the Zentralbahn, that links Lucerne and Interlaken.
Giswil railway station
Photo: Paebi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Giswil is a Swiss railway station on the Brünig line, owned by the Zentralbahn, that links Lucerne and Interlaken.
Localities in the Area
Sachseln
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sachseln is a village and municipality in the canton of Obwalden in Switzerland.
Giswil
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Giswil is a municipality in the canton of Obwalden in Switzerland.
Canton of Obwalden
- Type: State with 38,100 residents
- Description: canton of Switzerland
- Categories: canton of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.8614° or 46° 51' 41" northLongitude
8.2068° or 8° 12' 24" eastPopulation
38,100Elevation
467 metres (1,532 feet)Abbreviation
OWOpen Location Code
8FRCV664+HPOpenStreetMap ID
node 240062519OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
2659315Wikidata ID
Q12573Canton of Obwalden Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Kanton Obwalden
- Afrikaans: OW
- Albanian: Kantoni Obwalden
- Arabic: Obwalden
- Arabic: أوبفالدن
- Arabic: كانتون أوبفالدن
- Aragonese: Cantón d'Obwalden
- Aragonese: OW
- Armenian: Օբվալդեն
- Arpitan: OW
- Arpitan: Obvalde
- Arpitan: Quenton d’Obevalde
- Asturian: Cantón d'Obwalden
- Asturian: OW
- Azerbaijani: Obvalden
- Balinese: Kanton Obwalden
- Basque: OW
- Basque: Obwalden
- Bavarian: OW
- Belarusian: Кантон Обвальдэн
- Belarusian: Обвальдэн
- Bengali: ওবেল্ডেন
- Bosnian: Obwalden
- Breton: Kanton Obwalden
- Breton: OW
- Bulgarian: Обвалден
- Catalan: Cantó d'Obwalden
- Catalan: OW
- Catalan: Obwalden
- Cebuano: Kanton Obwalden
- Chinese: Obwalden Chiu
- Chinese: 上瓦尔登州
- Chinese: 上瓦爾登州
- Chinese: 上華登州
- Chuvash: Обвальден
- Corsican: OW
- Croatian: OW
- Croatian: Obwalden
- Czech: OW
- Czech: Obwalden
- Danish: OW
- Danish: Obwalden
- Dutch: OW
- Dutch: Obwalden
- English: Kanton Obwalden
- English: OW
- English: Obwalden
- English: Unterwalden ob dem Wald
- English: canton of Obwald
- Esperanto: Kantono Obvaldo
- Esperanto: OW
- Esperanto: Obvaldo
- Estonian: OW
- Estonian: Obwalden
- Estonian: Obwaldeni kanton
- Finnish: OW
- Finnish: Obwalden
- French: Canton d'Obwald
- French: OW
- French: Obwald
- French: Obwalden
- French: Unterwalden-le-Haut
- French: canton d'Obwald
- Friulian: OW
- Galician: OW
- Galician: Obwalden
- Georgian: ობვალდენის კანტონი
- German (Historic): Obwald
- German: Kanton Obwalden
- German: Kanton Unterwalden Obwalden
- German: OW
- German: Obwalden
- German: Unterwalden ob dem Wald
- Greek: Καντόνι του Όμπβαλντεν
- Greek: Ομπγουάλντεν
- Gujarati: ઓબ્વાલ્ડન
- Hebrew: אובוולדן
- Hindi: ओबवाल्डन कैन्टन
- Hindi: ओब्वाल्डेन
- Hungarian: OW
- Hungarian: Obwalden kanton
- Icelandic: OW
- Ido: OW
- Iloko: Obwalden
- Indonesian: Kanton Obwalden
- Indonesian: OW
- Interlingua: OW
- Interlingue: Canton de Obwalden
- Interlingue: OW
- Irish: OW
- Irish: Obwalden
- Italian: Canton Obvaldo
- Italian: OW
- Italian: Obvaldo
- Japanese: オプヴァルデン準州
- Kannada: ಓಬ್ವಾಲ್ಡೆನ್
- Kazakh: Обвальден
- Kongo: OW
- Korean: 옵발덴 주
- Korean: 옵발덴주
- Kurdish: Obwalden
- Ladin: Obwalden
- Lao: Obwalden
- Latin: Subsilvania superior
- Latvian: Obvaldene
- Latvian: Obvaldenes kantons
- Ligurian: OW
- Limburgan: OW
- Limburgan: Obwalden
- Lithuanian: Obvaldenas
- Lombard: Canton Obvald
- Lombard: Caton Obwalden
- Low German: OW
- Luxembourgish: Kanton Obwalden
- Luxembourgish: OW
- Macedonian: Обвалден
- Malagasy: OW
- Malay: OW
- Malay: Obwalden
- Marathi: ओबवाल्डन
- Mazanderani: ابوالدن
- Min Nan Chinese: Obwalden Chiu
- Minangkabau: OW
- Narom: OW
- Neapolitan: OW
- Nepali: ओब्वाल्डेन
- Northern Frisian: Obwalden
- Northern Sami: Obwalden
- Norwegian: Obwalden
- Norwegian Bokmål: OW
- Norwegian Bokmål: Obwalden
- Norwegian Nynorsk: OW
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Obwalden
- Occitan (post 1500): Canton d'Obwald
- Occitan (post 1500): Canton de Sursilvània
- Occitan (post 1500): OW
- Persian: ابوالدن
- Persian: کانتون ابوالدن
- Picard: OW
- Piemontese: OW
- Polish: OW
- Polish: Obwalden
- Portuguese: Cantão de Obwalden
- Portuguese: Kanton Obwalden
- Portuguese: OW
- Portuguese: Obwald
- Portuguese: Obwalden
- Portuguese: Unterwalden ob dem Wald
- Portuguese: cantão de Obwald
- Pushto: اوب والدن
- Romanian: Cantonul Obwald
- Romanian: OW
- Romansh: Chantun Sursilvania
- Romansh: OW
- Romansh: Roh-Sursilvania
- Romansh: Sursilvania
- Russian: Обвальден
- Sardinian: OW
- Scottish Gaelic: OW
- Scottish Gaelic: Obwalden
- Serbian: OW
- Serbian: Кантон Обвалден
- Serbo-Croatian: Obwalden
- Sicilian: Canton Obvaldu
- Sicilian: OW
- Sinhala: ඔබ්වල්ඩන්
- Slovak: OW
- Slovak: Obwalden
- Slovenian: Kanton Obwalden
- Slovenian: OW
- Slovenian: Obwalden
- South Azerbaijani: اوبولدان(کانتون)
- South Azerbaijani: اوبولدان
- Spanish: Cantón de Obwalden
- Spanish: OW
- Spanish: Obwalden
- Swahili: OW
- Swahili: Obwalden
- Swedish: OW
- Swedish: Obwalden
- Swiss German: Kanton Obwaldä
- Swiss German: OW
- Tamil: உபவால்டேன்
- Telugu: ఓబ్వాల్డెన్
- Thai: รัฐอ็อพวัลเดิน
- Tosk Albanian: Kanton Obwalden
- Turkish: OW
- Turkish: Obvaldo
- Turkish: Obwald
- Turkish: Obwalden
- Turkish: Obwalden kantonu
- Turkish: Subsilvania superior
- Turkish: Sursilvania
- Turkish: Unterwalden-le-Haut
- Turkish: Unterwalden ob dem Wald
- Turkish: canton d'Obwald
- Ukrainian: Обвальден
- Urdu: اوبوالدن
- Venetian: Canton Obvaldo
- Venetian: OW
- Vietnamese: OW
- Vietnamese: Obwalden
- Vlaams: OW
- Volapük: OW
- Walloon: OW
- Waray (Philippines): Obwalden
- Welsh: OW
- Welsh: Obwalden
- Western Panjabi: اوبوالڈن
- Wolof: OW
- Wu Chinese: 上瓦尔登州
- Yue Chinese: 上華登州
- Zulu: OW
- CH064
- Canton d’Obwald
Localities in the Area
- OberwilenHamlet
- EwilVillage
- ReinboldenLocality
- BrandLocality
- AbeggLocality
Landmarks in the Area
- Kapelle EwilChapel
- Ewil Maxon railway stationRailway stop
- St. Apollonia Chapel, EwilChapel
- Protected area of the national meadow SteinibachNature reserve
- Giswil CampingPassenger ship terminal
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