Sisikon
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Sisikon is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland. It is situated on the shore of Lake Lucerne.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Sisikon
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Sisikon 0844.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Sisikon-coat of arms.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Uri
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-UR
- Swiss town.district
- n.a.
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 6452
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 1217
- Swiss town.area
- 16.30
- Swiss town.elevation
- 453
- Swiss town.website
- www.sisikon.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Bauen, Bürglen, Flüelen, Morschach (SZ), Riemenstalden (SZ), Seelisberg
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Official website
Sisikon
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Sisikon
- Population
- 369
- Area
- 16.46
- Elevation
- 1497
- Official website
- www.sisikon.ch
- Image
- Sisikon 0844.jpg
- Dialing code
- 041
- Licence plate code
- UR
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- Commons category
- Sisikon
- postal code
- 6452
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/1217
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- Geography
- Demographics
- Transport
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Sisikon is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland. It is situated on the shore of Lake Lucerne.
==Geography== thumb|Aerial view from 100 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1922) Sisikon has an area, , of . Of this area, 30.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 44% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (23.8%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). , 36.5% of the total land area was heavily forested, while 4.1% is covered in small trees and shrubbery. Of the agricultural land, 0.2% is used for farming or pastures, while 4.5% is used for orchards or vine crops and 26.3% is used for alpine pastures. Of the settled areas, 0.4% is covered with buildings, 0.2% is listed as parks and greenbelts and 0.6% is transportation infrastructure. Of the unproductive areas, 0.4% is unproductive standing water (ponds or lakes), 0.2% is unproductive flowing water (rivers), 7.7% is too rocky for vegetation, and 15.5% is other unproductive land.
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