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Also known as Wil SG, Wil, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Wil (SG), Wil, Switzerland, Stadt Wil
Wil () is a town and political municipality in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It has a small-town character and is an important center for the west of the canton, lower Toggenburg and Hinterthurgau. Wil had a population of 25,176 by the end of 2024. With 74,550 inhabitants (according to the FSO), the agglomeration of Wil is the second-largest conurbation in Eastern Switzerland. The former political municipality of Bronschhofen has been part of the town of Wil since 1 January 2013. For more than 500 years, the prince-abbots of St. Gallen resided in the "Hof" of Wil; Wil is also called
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Wil
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- City
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Wil Wolken 1960.JPG
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Historic town center of Wil (2004)
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Wil SG COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- St. Gallen
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-SG
- Swiss town.district
- Wahlkreis Wil
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 9500
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 3427
- Swiss town.area
- 7.62
- Swiss town.elevation
- 571
- Swiss town.website
- www.stadtwil.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Hans Mäder
- Swiss town.mayor_asof
- January 2021
- Swiss town.mayor_party
- Die Mitte
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Stadtpräsident
- Swiss town.list_of_mayors
- List of mayors of Wil
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Stadt Wil
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Heritage sites of national significance
- Transport
- Sport
- Economy
- Religion
- Crime
- Mayor
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Wil () is a town and political municipality in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It has a small-town character and is an important center for the west of the canton, lower Toggenburg and Hinterthurgau. Wil had a population of 25,176 by the end of 2024. With 74,550 inhabitants (according to the FSO), the agglomeration of Wil is the second-largest conurbation in Eastern Switzerland. The former political municipality of Bronschhofen has been part of the town of Wil since 1 January 2013. For more than 500 years, the prince-abbots of St. Gallen resided in the "Hof" of Wil; Wil is also called "Abbots Town" ("Äbtestadt") and is the third largest city in the canton of St. Gallen, after St. Gallen and Rapperswil-Jona.
In 1984, Wil was awarded the Wakker Prize for the development and preservation of its architectural heritage.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wil” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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