Rapperswil-Jona

Rapperswil-Jona is a municipality of about 27,500 inhabitants in the See-Gaster constituency of the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Besides Rapperswil and Jona, which were separate municipalities until 2006, it includes Bollingen, Busskirch, Curtiberg, Kempraten-Lenggis and Wagen. On 1 January 2007 Rapperswil and Jona merged into one political entity with a population of 25,777, 17,799 from Jona and 7,601 from Rapperswil, which made it the second largest town in the canton after St. Gallen itself. On 31 December 2020 the population was 27,483. It is one of the most significant traffic junctions of the region, and Rapperswil railway station is a nodal point for the Swiss Federal Railways, the Südostbahn and the Zürich S-Bahn lines; the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft operates passenger vessels on Lake Zürich from here.