Official Name: | Landquart District |
Native Name: | Bezirk Landquart |
Settlement Type: | District |
Subdivision Type3: | Capital |
Area Total Km2: | 193.23 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Blank Name Sec1: | Municipalities |
Blank Info Sec1: | 9 |
Landquart District is a former administrative district in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It had an area of 193.91km2 and has a population of 25,555 in 2015. It was replaced with the Landquart Region on 1 January 2017 as part of a reorganization of the Canton.[1]
It consisted of two Kreise (circles) and nine municipalities:
Municipality | Population | Area (km2) | |
---|---|---|---|
18.55 | |||
28.47 | |||
27.67 | |||
10.96 |
In 2008 the municipality of Says merged into Trimmis. In 2012, the municipalities of Igis and Mastrils merged to form the new municipality of Landquart.[2]
Municipality | Population | Area (km2) | |
---|---|---|---|
19.95 | |||
10.50 | |||
32.37 | |||
11.38 |
The district was formerly called Unterlandquart and additionally included the sub-districts of Schiers and Seewis, now part of Prättigau/Davos.
Languages | Census 2000 | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number | Percent | ||||
align=right | 19,722 | align=right | 89.3% | ||
align=right | 448 | align=right | 2.0% | ||
align=right | 457 | align=right | 2.1% | ||
TOTAL | align=right | 22,075 | align=right | 100% |