Bad Ragaz  Bad Ragaz is a municipality in the "Wahlkreis" (constituency) of Sarganserland in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It is the home of a famous natural spring and is a popular spa and health resort destination. Bad Ragaz is first mentioned "circa" 843 as "Ragaces". Bad Ragaz has an area, , of . Of this area, 45.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 34.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 9.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (10.1%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes). The municipality is in the Sarganserland "Wahlkreis" of Bezirk Sargans. The spa and recreation village is in the south-east of the canton at the end of the Tamina valley. It lies on the north-south and east-west routes over the Graubünden Alps. Until 1937 Bad Ragaz was known as Ragaz. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is "Azure a Dove volant displayed Argent beaked and membered Or having a sprig Gules in the beak." Bad Ragaz has a population (as of ) of . , about 25.1% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Of the foreign population, (), 122 are from Germany, 144 are from Italy, 508 are from ex-Yugoslavia, 59 are from Austria, 1 person is from Turkey, and 312 are from another country. Over the last 10 years the population has grown by 8.3%. Most of the population () speaks German (84.9%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common (4.3%) and Italian being third (2.9%). Of the Swiss national languages (), 4,184 speak German, 30 people speak French, 141 people speak Italian, and 45 people speak Romansh. The age distribution, , in Bad Ragaz is:  In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 40.3% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (21.4%), the FDP (13.7%) and the SP (12.7%). The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Bad Ragaz about 68.9% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a "Fachhochschule").