Districts of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden

The canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden comprises six districts . In the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden, the districts are the lowest administrative unit and thus largely correspond to the municipalities in the other cantons. At the federal level, they are therefore referred to as political municipalities for reasons of uniform terminology . In contrast to the municipalities in the rest of Switzerland, however, the districts are not the bearers of municipal citizenship , but the two parts of the country; there is only one municipal citizenship right for Appenzell (inner part of the country) and one of Oberegg (outer part of the country).

For the village of Appenzell , whose districts are in three districts (Appenzell, Rüte and Schwende), there is also the fire show community .

List of districts

Districts of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden
District name	Resident December 31, 2018	Proportion of foreigners in percent December 31, 2018	Area in km²	Inhabitants per km²
Appenzell	5795	18.3	16.88	343
Gonten	1462	4.7	24.73	7th
Oberegg	1916	8.4	14.61	131
Rute	3648	5.5	40.82	89
Schlatt-Haslen	1128	3.1	17.93	63
Schwende	2196	10.0	57.51	38
Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden (entire)	16'145	10.8	172.48	94

Web links

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Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden: districts

Individual evidence

^ Ordinance on land law and community citizenship of November 24, 1997. ( PDF ; 87 kB) (No longer available online.) In: ai.ch. Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden , November 24, 1997, archived from the original on March 20, 2016 ; Retrieved April 10, 2016 .

↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .

↑ Our Inner Rhodes in numbers. (PDF; 1.61 MB) Cantonal Administration of Appenzell Innerrhoden, p. 2 , accessed on December 22, 2019 (population data according to the residents' registration of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden).

↑ Federal Statistical Office Generalized Limits 2020.

[1] Ordinance on land law and community citizenship of November 24, 1997. ( PDF ; 87 kB) (No longer available online.) In: ai.ch. Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden , November 24, 1997, archived from the original on March 20, 2016 ; Retrieved April 10, 2016 .

[2] Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .

[3] Our Inner Rhodes in numbers. (PDF; 1.61 MB) Cantonal Administration of Appenzell Innerrhoden, p. 2 , accessed on December 22, 2019 (population data according to the residents' registration of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden).

[Generalisierte_Grenzen_2020-4] Federal Statistical Office Generalized Limits 2020.