Maloja District

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Maloja District
Bezirk Maloja
Distretto di Maloggia
District da Malögia
District
Location of Maloja District
Country   Switzerland
Canton  Graubünden
Capital Samedan
Area
 • Total 973.61 km2 (375.91 sq mi)
Population (2014)
 • Total 18,853
 • Density 19/km2 (50/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Municipalities 16

Maloja District (Italian: Distretto di Maloggia ) is an administrative district in the canton of Graubünden (or Grigioni), Switzerland. It has an area of 973.28 km2 (375.79 sq mi) and has a population of 18,853 (as of 31 December 2014).[1] It is trilingual, with official languages used by municipalities inside the district being, in order of dominance, German, Italian, and Romansh.

It consists of two Kreise (sub-districts) and sixteen municipalities:

Bregaglia sub-district
Municipality Population
(31 December 2014)[1]
Area (km²)
Bregaglia 1,543 251.45
Oberengadin sub-district
Municipality Population
(31 December 2014)[1]
Area (km²)
Bever 620 45.65
Celerina/Schlarigna 1,504 24.03
La Punt-Chamues-ch 752 63.22
Madulain 232 16.35
Pontresina 2,161 118.24
St. Moritz 5,233 28.69
Samedan 3,014 113.97
S-chanf 715 137.90
Sils im Engadin/Segl 768 63.54
Silvaplana 1,067 44.71
Zuoz 1,244 65.62

Languages

All three of Graubünden's official languages: German, Romansh, and Italian, can be heard in the district. Except for the municipality of Bregaglia, the area was predominately Romansh-speaking. Today, Romansh is spoken the least out of the three official languages of Maloja.

Languages of Maloja District, GR
Languages Census 2000
Number Percent
German 10,474 55.7%
Romansh 2,312 12.3%
Italian 4,004 21.3%
TOTAL 18,813 100%

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Swiss Federal Statistics Office – STAT-TAB Ständige und Nichtständige Wohnbevölkerung nach Region, Geschlecht, Nationalität und Alter (German) accessed 31 August 2015