Thurgau

Thurgau (Fr. Thurgovie), a frontier canton in the north-east of Switzerland. Area, 381 sq. m.; pop. (1898) 111,204, of whom two-thirds are Protestants. The surface, unlike that of the other cantons of the country, is undulating or hilly, but nowhere mountainous, the chief height being the Hörnli in the extreme south, 3722 feet. The principal river is the Thur, which, flowing WNW. through a broad fertile valley, joins the Rhine in the canton of Zurich. Capital, Frauenfeld.