St. Moritz
St. Moritz | |
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Winter night in St. Moritz St. Moritz on an evening in February 2009, with the frozen lake | |
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Location of St. Moritz | |
St. Moritz St. Moritz | |
| Coordinates: 46°29′50″N 9°50′16″E / 46.49722°N 9.83778°E | |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Canton | Grisons |
| District | Maloja |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Christian Jott Jenny Ind. (as of 1 January 2019) |
| Area | |
• Total | 28.69 km2 (11.08 sq mi) |
| Elevation (Traunter Plazzas) | 1,822 m (5,978 ft) |
| Population (December 2020) | |
• Total | 4,945 |
| • Density | 172.4/km2 (446.4/sq mi) |
| Demonym | German: St. Moritzer(in) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 7500 |
| SFOS number | 3787 |
| ISO 3166 code | CH-GR |
| Localities | St. Moritz-Dorf, St. Moritz-Bad, Suvretta, Champfèr (eastern part) |
| Surrounded by | Bever, Celerina/Schlarigna, Samedan, Silvaplana |
| Website | www.gemeinde-stmoritz.ch |
St. Moritz is a high Alpine resort town in the Engadine in Switzerland, at an elevation of about 1,800 metres (5,910 ft) above sea level. It is Upper Engadine's major town and a municipality in the administrative region of Maloja in the Swiss canton of the Grisons.
St. Moritz lies on the southern slopes of the Albula Alps below the Piz Nair (3,056 m or 10,026 ft) overlooking the flat and wide glaciated valley of the Upper Engadine and Lake St. Moritz. It hosted the Winter Olympics in 1928 and 1948.