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Mels

municipality in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland
AdministrativeArea municipality_of_switzerland Q67027

Facts

22 properties
Instance of
municipality of Switzerland
Country
Switzerland[4]
Official website
www.mels.ch[20]
Part of
list of cultural properties in Mels[17]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 47.050°, 9.417°
Appears in the heritage monument list
list of cultural properties in Mels[35]
Area
139.1 (139.1–140, n=3)[32][33][34]
Elevation above sea level
+497, +1579[30][31]
Heritage designation
Swiss townscape worthy of protection[26]
Licence plate code
SG[18]
List of monuments
list of cultural properties in Mels[28]
Local dialing code
081[19]
Located in or next to body of water
Seez, Rhine[5][6]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Sarganserland Constituency[3]
Member of
SGV-ACS[2]
Native label
Mels[29]
Official language
Swiss High German[7]
Official name
Mels[27]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory[36]
Population
9.6k (8.0k–9.6k, n=5)[21][22][23][24][25]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 8,610 · 8,620 · 8,026 · 9,242 · 9,581 GeoNames 8,561 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Postal code
8887[16]
Shares border with
Bad Ragaz, Fläsch, Flums, Glarus Süd, Vilters-Wangs, Wartau, Pfäfers, Sargans[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
🏷️ Also known as
en Mels en Mels SG de Mels SG fr Mels SG it Mels SG ja メルス pl Mels (Szwajcaria) ru Мельс zh 默爾斯 zh-hans 默尔斯
🔖 Identifiers · 20
VIAF cluster ID
157286936
Library of Congress authority ID
n98095324
GND ID
4287617-5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Kirche von Mels.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
11252
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
42779
External data available at URL
geo.ld.admin.ch
FactGrid item ID
Blackburn House
Freebase ID
/m/0gnryx
GADM ID
CHE.16.4.3_1
GeoNames ID
7286481
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 7286481 GND (DNB) 2659690 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗
HDS ID
001354
Show all 20 identifiers +8
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007538040605171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1683906
SPAP ID
p/e1a4b0c6-ea5b-4a0c-be1d-3ae96f3f89e4
Swiss Enterprise Identification Number
CHE-115.050.527
Swiss municipality code
3293
Topic's main category
Category:Mels
VerbaAlpina ID
A60567
Who's on First ID
101854263

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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 8
Sargans, Bad Ragaz, Flums, Vilters-Wangs, Wartau, Fläsch, Pfäfers, Glarus Süd
← Shares border with 8
Sargans, Bad Ragaz, Flums, Vilters-Wangs, Wartau, Fläsch, Pfäfers, Glarus Süd
Contained subdivisions 2
Riseten Pass, Mels railway station
Located in or next to body of water 2
Rhine, Seez
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
People born here 2
Paul Guldin, Helen Meier
← Municipal affiliation of a Swiss national 2
Josef Ackermann, Helen Meier
Country 1
Switzerland
Instance of 1
municipality of Switzerland
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Sarganserland Constituency
Official language 1
Swiss High German
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Sarganserland Constituency
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Summary

Mels is a Municipality of Switzerland[1].

Related Entities

Switzerland WikiProject Govdirectory

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [2] ↑ . chgemeinden.ch. Retrieved . chgemeinden.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . mels.ch. Retrieved . mels.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . gisos.bak.admin.ch. Retrieved . gisos.bak.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [33] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [34] ↑ . swissBOUNDARIES3D. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  34. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [36] ↑ . govdirectory.org. Retrieved . govdirectory.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16d ago · Horgner · 2026-10-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+8610'}, {'amount': '+8620'}, {'amount': '+8026'} +2
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Population: 9,581, mass upload ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/e2ea98ac2e9|details]])"
  2. 19d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['als', 'ca', 'ceb', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'eu', 'fr', 'it', 'kk', 'la',
    Area → {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+140.00'}, {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+139.11'}, {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+139.10'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Area: 139.10 square kilometre, area from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  3. 12w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/46599|batch #46599]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  4. 12w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://www.mels.ch
    Country → —
    Official language → —
    Located in time zone → —
    + 27 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ VerbaAlpina ID: A60567, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/263620|batch #263620]]"
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