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Toggenburg
Wahlkreis Toggenburg
constituency, geographical region
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Coordinates: 47°17′58″N 9°5′13″E / 47.29944°N 9.08694°E / 47.29944; 9.08694
CountryToggenburg Switzerland
CantonToggenburg St. Gallen
Area
 • Total488.75 km2 (188.71 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2020)
 • Total46,954
 • Density96/km2 (250/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Municipalities10
View of the Thur and the church of Stein, facing north, with the Churfirsten visible in the backdrop.
Streusiedlung at the eastern end of the Toggenburg
Map of the historical territories of the Canton of St. Gallen. The former county of Toggenburg is shown in pink.
The Churfirsten (view from Alpstein with Toggenburg below)

Toggenburg is a region of Switzerland. It corresponds to the upper valley of the river Thur[1] and that of its main tributary, the Necker. Since 1 January 2003, Toggenburg has been a constituency (Wahlkreis) of the canton of St. Gallen (SFOS number 1727).

  1. ^ Toggenburg One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Coolidge, William Augustus Brevoort (1911). "Toggenburg, The". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 1045–1046.

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