Maur is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. It is first mentioned between 874 and 887 as de Mure. The municipality covers 14.8 square kilometres. Of this area 52.6 percent is used for agricultural purposes, 26.9 percent is forested, 20.2 percent is settled with buildings or roads and the remaining 0.3 percent is non-productive land such as rivers, glaciers or mountains. In 1996 housing and buildings made up 14.9 percent of the total area and transportation infrastructure made up 5.5 percent. The municipality had a population of 9,119 in 2007.
Facts
Area (sq km) Elevation (m) Elevation Band Sources
1. citypopulation.de: Switzerland: Cantons and Cities
citypopulation.deCities table, population estimate of 2020-12-31Quote, Cities table, population estimate of 2020-12-31
Maur ZH 6,222 6,979 8,677 9,532 10,780 10,871 1478
2. Maur, Switzerland (Wikipedia)
Geography
Maur has an area of 14.8 km2
Part Of: Switzerland, Lead
in the district of Uster in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland
On Continent: Europe, Lead, location
in the district of Uster in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland
In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Lead, placement
in the district of Uster in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland
View the Source3. Opentopodata (SRTM): SRTM 90 m elevation at 47.35,8.6667
Opentopodata (SRTM)Elevation of the place coordinates 47.35,8.6667, band assigned from the figure (up to 10 m sea level, under 500 m lowland, under 1500 m highland, otherwise mountain)Quote, Elevation of the place coordinates 47.35,8.6667, band assigned from the figure (up to 10 m sea level, under 500 m lowland, under 1500 m highland, otherwise mountain)
"elevation": 434.0
4. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, europe zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseZone line for the national time zoneQuote, Zone line for the national time zone
1:00 EU CE%sT
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