Lucerne-Land District

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Lucerne-Land District
Wahlkreis Luzern-Land
District
Country Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
Canton Flag of Canton of Lucerne.svg  Luzern
Area
 • Total230.86 km2 (89.14 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total104,751
 • Density450/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Municipalities 17

Lucerne-Land District (German : Wahlkreis Luzern-Land) is one of the two new Wahlkreis formed from the former Lucerne Amt in 2013 in the Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. It has a population of 104,751 (as of 31 December 2020) and includes everything but the city of Lucerne from the old Amt. [1]

MunicipalitiesPopulation
(31 December 2020) [2] 		Area (km2)
Adligenswil 5,4716.99
Buchrain 6,4004.80
Dierikon 1,5792.78
Ebikon 14,0669.69
Gisikon 1,4211.08
Greppen 1,1855.25
Honau 4141.25
Horw 14,21120.43
Kriens 28,24527.31
Malters 7,41028.57
Meggen 7,56213.93
Meierskappel 1,4779.23
Root 5,3358.65
Schwarzenberg 1,73839.31
Udligenswil 2,3716.22
Vitznau 1,42611.76
Weggis 4,44025.29
District of Lucerne104,751259.92 [3]

Mergers

The new Wahlkreis was created on 1 January 2013.

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References

  1. ↑ Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz (in German) accessed 9 February 2013
  2. ↑ "Ständige und nichtständige Wohnbevölkerung nach institutionellen Gliederungen, Geburtsort und Staatsangehörigkeit". bfs.admin.ch (in German). Swiss Federal Statistical Office - STAT-TAB. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  3. ↑ LUSTAT-Canton of Lucerne Statistical Office Archived 2012-02-29 at the Wayback Machine as of 2000 survey, (in German) accessed 25 August 2009

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