Eastern Switzerland

Eastern Switzerland Svizra orientala, Svizra da l'ost ( Rhaeto-Romanic ) Svizzera orientale ( Italian )

Cantons :	Canton of Glarus Glarus Canton of Schaffhausen Schaffhausen Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden Appenzell Ausserrhoden Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden Appenzell Innerrhoden Canton of St. Gallen St. Gallen canton of Grisons Grisons Canton of Thurgau Thurgau
Official languages :	German , Romansh , Italian
Surface:	11,251 km²
Residents:	1,174,990 (September 30, 2018)
Population density :	104 inhabitants per km²
Website :	www.ork-ostschweiz.ch

The Eastern Switzerland ( Romansh: Svizra Orientala , Svizra da l'ost , Italian Svizzera orientale , French Suisse orientale ) is a differently defined destination of Eastern Switzerland .

The core region consists of the cantons of St. Gallen , Thurgau , Appenzell Inner Rhodes and Appenzell Outer Rhodes , which together with the canton of Schaffhausen , the northeastern Switzerland forms. Depending on the context, the cantons of Zurich and Glarus are sometimes included in north-eastern Switzerland.

The large southern canton of Grisons , together with the south of the canton of St. Gallen and Glarus the Southeast Switzerland .

In the core area outlined above, however, the st. Gallic Linth area with Rapperswil-Jona and Thurgau's Frauenfeld in terms of traffic geography facing Zurich in the west, while the Alpine Rhine Valley, together with Vorarlberg in the east, forms its own cross-border economic area.

Greater region of Eastern Switzerland according to FSO

According to the definition of the Federal Statistical Office (FSO), "Eastern Switzerland" is one of seven major regions in Switzerland and includes the cantons of Glarus, Schaffhausen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Appenzell Innerrhoden, St. Gallen, Graubünden and Thurgau.

The cantons on the periphery of this heterogeneous large region have different orientations. In terms of traffic and economy, Schaffhausen is more oriented towards Zurich and the Baden-Württemberg neighborhood. Glarus is also economically oriented towards Zurich via the Linth area, and Graubünden, with three languages and 150 valleys, forms its own cultural microcosm and geographical area.

Eastern Switzerland Intergovernmental Conference, Concordats and Associations

The seven cantons of the large statistical region are members of the Eastern Switzerland Intergovernmental Conference (ORK), which has existed since 1964. The Canton of Zurich has been an associated member since 2001 and the Principality of Liechtenstein since 2018.

The directors' conferences and intercantonal concordats that have arisen within the East Switzerland Intergovernmental Conference are composed differently.

organization	GL	SH	AR	AI	SG	GR	TG	ZH	SZ	FL
Intergovernmental Conference in Eastern Switzerland	J	J	J	J	J	J	J
Conference of Educational Directors in Eastern Switzerland (EDK-Ost)	J	J	J	J	J	J	J	J	J	J
Economics Directors Conference East (VDK East)	J	J	J	J	J	J	J			J
Social Directors Conference East (SODK Ost + ZH)	J	J	J	J	J	J	J	J
Police Concordat in Eastern Switzerland	J	J	J	J	J	J	J
Football Association of Eastern Switzerland	J		J	J	J	J	J			J
Eastern Switzerland Association of Cable Car Companies	J		J	J	J		J
St. Gallen Children's Hospital in Eastern Switzerland			J	J	J		J			J

media

Central area of Eastern Switzerland

The "Ostschweiz" association of the St. Galler Tagblatt contains almost exclusively information from the core area outlined in the introduction. The regional journal Ostschweiz from Radio SRF, on the other hand, reports from the core area and the canton of Glarus.

Linguistics

Dialectologically , those dialects belong to the Eastern Swiss dialect that know the Eastern Swiss vowel splitting . It applies in the northernmost part of the canton of Zurich ( Rafzerfeld , wine country north of the Thur and the area around Elgg ), in the cantons of Schaffhausen, Thurgau and in both Appenzell, for the most part in the canton of St. Gallen (excluding See-Gaster and Sarganserland , but of the latter the communities already located in the Rhine Valley excluded) and in the Graubünden Rhine Valley ( rule as far as Chur ).

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Eastern Switzerland - who actually belongs to it? In: St. Galler Tagblatt (online), November 13, 2015
Jörg Krummenacher: Eastern Switzerland is in a twilight state. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (online), October 27, 2017

Web links

Commons : Eastern Switzerland - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikinews: Eastern Switzerland - in the news

Individual evidence

↑ Permanent resident population by nationality category, age and canton, 3rd quarter of 2018. In: bfs.admin.ch. Federal Statistical Office FSO, accessed on January 28, 2019 .
↑ Welcome to the homepage of the Eastern Switzerland Intergovernmental Conference (ORK). On: ORK website, accessed on October 8, 2019
↑ ^a ^b ^c associated member
↑ also member of the Conference of Educational Directors Central Switzerland (BKZ)
^ Rudolf Hotzenköcherle : The language landscapes of German Switzerland. Sauerländer, Aarau, Frankfurt am Main, Salzburg 1984 (series Sprachlandschaften der Schweiz 1), ISBN 3-7941-2623-8 ; here: the northeast. Pp. 91-124.

[1] Permanent resident population by nationality category, age and canton, 3rd quarter of 2018. In: bfs.admin.ch. Federal Statistical Office FSO, accessed on January 28, 2019 .

[2] Welcome to the homepage of the Eastern Switzerland Intergovernmental Conference (ORK). On: ORK website, accessed on October 8, 2019

[a-3] ssociated member

[4] so member of the Conference of Educational Directors Central Switzerland (BKZ)

[5] Rudolf Hotzenköcherle : The language landscapes of German Switzerland. Sauerländer, Aarau, Frankfurt am Main, Salzburg 1984 (series Sprachlandschaften der Schweiz 1), ISBN 3-7941-2623-8 ; here: the northeast. Pp. 91-124.