Stansstad
Sign in to saveStansstad is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Stansstad
- Swiss town.image_photo
- 6476 - Stansstad - Bahnhofstrasse.JPG
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- village
- Swiss town.district
- n.a.
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Stansstad COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Stansstad Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Nidwalden
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-NW
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 6362
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 1510
- Swiss town.area
- 17.11
- Swiss town.elevation
- 436
- Swiss town.population
- 4396
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2015
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2015
- Swiss town.website
- www.stansstad.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Alpnach (OW), Ennetbürgen, Ennetmoos, Hergiswil, Horw (LU), Meggen (LU), Stans, Weggis (LU)
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Stansstad is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland.
==Geography== thumb|left|Stansstad and Lake Lucerne thumb|Aerial view by Walter Mittelholzer (1919) Stansstad has an area, (as of the 2004/09 survey) of . Of this area, about 32.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 49.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 15.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and 2.4% is unproductive land. In the 2004/09 survey a total of or about 8.8% of the total area was covered with buildings, an increase of over the 1981/82 amount. Over the same time period, the amount of recreational space in the municipality increased by and is now about 0.99% of the total area. Of the agricultural land, is used for orchards and vineyards and is fields and grasslands. Since 1981/82 the amount of agricultural land has decreased by . Rivers and lakes cover in the municipality.