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Stein

former municipality of Switzerland in St. Gallen
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Summary

Stein is a former municipality of Switzerland[1]. Stein ranks in the top 8% of former municipality of switzerland entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (80 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Canton of St. Gallen[3], Nesslau[4]
  • Country: Switzerland[5]
  • Instance of: Ortschaft[6]
  • Shares border with: Amden[7], Alt St. Johann[8]
  • Postal code: 9655[9]
  • Commons category: Stein SG[10]
  • Licence plate code: SG[11]
  • Local dialing code: 071[12]
  • Official website: http://www.stein-sg.ch[13]
  • Population: 374[14]
  • Replaced by: Nesslau[15]
  • Official name: Stein SG[16]
  • Elevation above sea level: 838 m[17]
  • Area: 12.24 km²[18]

Why It Matters

Stein has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] Stein is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Switzerland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Historicized municipal directory of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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. 10h ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['als', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fr', 'it', 'kk', 'lmo', 'ms', 'nl',
    Official name → {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Stein SG'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||mul */ default label, official name from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  2. 9w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → A60605
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Verbaalpina id: A60605, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/263620|batch #263620]]"
  3. 12w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Website → —
    Population → {'amount': '+374'}
    Shares border with → Amden, Alt St. Johann
    Population → —
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/42779|batch #42779]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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