Prättigau/Davos District

Prättigau/Davos District Bezirk Prättigau/Davos
District
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Graubünden
Capital	Davos
Area
• Total	853.40 km^2 (329.50 sq mi)
Population  (December 2015)
• Total	26,257
• Density	31/km^2 (80/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Municipalities	13

Prättigau/Davos District (German: Bezirk Prättigau/Davos, Romansh: District da Partenz-Tavau^ⓘ) is a former administrative district in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It had an area of 823.95 km^2 (318.13 sq mi) and has a population of 26,257 in 2015. It was replaced with the Prättigau/Davos Region on 1 January 2017 as part of a reorganization of the Canton.[1]

It consists of seven Kreise (sub-districts) and fifteen municipalities:

Davos sub-district

Municipality	Population (31 December 2020)[2]	Area (km²)
Davos	10,832	254.48

Jenaz sub-district

Municipality	Population (31 December 2020)[2]	Area (km²)
Fideris	595	25.32
Furna	207	33.25
Jenaz	1,147	25.95

Klosters sub-district

Municipality	Population (31 December 2020)[2]	Area (km²)
Klosters-Serneus	4,416	193.16

Küblis sub-district

Municipality	Population (31 December 2020)[2]	Area (km²)
Conters im Prättigau	220	18.40
Küblis	891	8.13

Luzein sub-district

Municipality	Population (31 December 2020)[2]	Area (km²)
Luzein	1,596	31.63
St. Antönien	331	52.2

Schiers sub-district

Municipality	Population (31 December 2020)[2]	Area (km²)
Grüsch	2,115	43.30
Schiers	2,727	61.75

Seewis sub-district

Municipality	Population (31 December 2020)[2]	Area (km²)
Seewis im Prättigau	1,376	49.64

The sub-districts Davos, Jenaz, Klosters, Küblis and Luzein belonged until 1986 to the defunct district Oberlandquart; the sub-districts Schiers and Seewis to the defunct district Unterlandquart.

Mergers

On 1 January 2016 the former municipality of Saas im Prättigau merged into Klosters-Serneus.[3]

Languages

Languages of Prättigau/Davos District, GR

Languages	Census 2000
	Number	Percent
German	23,492	89.9%
Romansh	285	1.1%
Italian	452	1.7%
TOTAL	26,130	100%

References

1. Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz - Mutationsmeldungen 2016 accessed 16 February 2017
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. Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz (in German) accessed 18 January 2018

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