Key facts
- Country
- Switzerland
- Canton
- Grisons
- District
- Maloja
- Total
- 63.54 km (24.53 sq mi)
- Elevation church segl maria
- 1,809 m (5,935 ft)
- Density
- 12.0/km (31.0/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Postal code
- 7514, 7515, 7517
- Iso 3166 code
- CH-GR
- Localities
- Segl Maria, Segl Baselgia, Seglias, Val Fex as well as Grevasalvas , Blaunca and Buaira
- Surrounded by
- Bivio , Chiesa in Valmalenco (IT-SO), Lanzada (IT-SO), Samedan , Silvaplana , Stampa
- Website
- www.sils-segl.ch
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Gemeinde Sils im Engadin/Segl
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Maloja Region
- Population
- 700
- Area
- 63.58
- Elevation
- 1803
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Inn
- Shares border with
- Chiesa in Valmalenco
- Official website
- www.sils-segl.ch
- Image
- Sils Maria.jpg
- Dialing code
- 081
- Licence plate code
- GR
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- postal code
- 7514
- Commons category
- Sils im Engadin/Segl
- topic's main category
- Category:Sils im Engadin/Segl
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- native label
- Segl
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/3789
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Encyclopedic overview
Sils im Engadin/Segl (German: Sils im Engadin; Romansh Segl), often also as Sils i.E./Segl, is a municipality and village in the Maloja Region, Upper Engadine in the Swiss canton of the Grisons.
It consists of two villages, Segl Maria (Romansh, German: Sils Maria; Seglias is part of Segl Maria) and Segl Baselgia (German: Sils Baselgia; Baselgia is Romansh for church); the Val Fex (German: Fextal); and three Maiensässe (Alpine pastures traditionally used for spring grazing): Grevasalvas, Blaunca and Buaira, above Plaun da Lej on the left side of the valley.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sils im Engadin/Segl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.