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Location within Switzerland

Emmen (population: 27,000) is a city in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. The municipality covers an area of 20.37 km² The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ... Lucerne (German Luzern) is a canton of Switzerland. ... In contrast to centrally organised states, in the federally constituted Switzerland each Canton is completely free to decide its own internal organisation. ... This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (vertically) and longitude (horizontally); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which... 2003: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August _ September - October - November - December - → A timeline of events in the news for December, 2003. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... The metre, or meter (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ... Here are postal codes of Switzerland and Liechtenstein: Zone 1 1000s are found in Lausanne, Lavaux and parts of Morges, 1100s in parts of Morges, 1200s are in Geneva and parts of La Côte, Vaud, 1300s in La Vallée, 1500s are found in Clavaleyres, the 1700s are found... The Official Munipality Key, formerly also known as the Official Municipality Characteristic Number or Municipality Code Number, is a number sequence for the identification of politically independent municipalities or municipality-free areas. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Die Bezeichnung Eschenbach(means ash stream) tragen verschiedene Orte // Placenames Placenames in Germany die Stadt Eschenbach i. ... Location within Switzerland View of the city from Lake Lucerne Another view across Lake Lucerne The Lion Monument Lucerne (German: (help· info)) is a city in Central Switzerland with a population of 60,274 (December 31, 2003), capital of the Canton of Lucerne. ... Rothenburg is the name of several cities and municipalities Rothenburg ob der Tauber in Bavaria, Germany Rothenburg (Oberlausitz) in Saxony, Germany Rothenburg (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Rothenburg in the Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland see also: Rotenburg This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1803x1473, 115 KB) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1803x1473, 115 KB) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Lucerne (German Luzern) is a canton of Switzerland. ... To help compare sizes of different geographic regions, we list here areas between 10 km² (1000 hectares) and 100 km² (10,000 hectares). ...

The municipality of Emmen also includes Emmenbrücke.

Emmenbrücke

Emmenbrücke is the urban agglomeration of Lucerne. It has about 40´000 inhabitants. The main Industry is the Steel-Industrie, EMMI (Switzerlands biggest Cheese-Corporation) as well as a division of Ruag, the Swiss Army-Suplier. There is the so called ´golden triangle´ of the sewage plant, the airforce-base and the waste incinerating plant. Location within Switzerland View of the city from Lake Lucerne Another view across Lake Lucerne The Lion Monument Lucerne (German: (help· info)) is a city in Central Switzerland with a population of 60,274 (December 31, 2003), capital of the Canton of Lucerne. ...

The naturalization affair

The city of Emmen went in the international headlines when it revealed, in the year 2001 their citizenship rules. Like all Swiss cities, the people of Emmen have the right to vote if somebody should get the citicenship. In small villages this is the comon way of handling that issue. In bigger villages, this work is done by a comission. In Emmen this comission did for several years not really a good job and gave the citicenship to whoever fulfilled the (it has to be said, quite strong) requisites to get the swiss passport. The People of Emmen were very dissatisfied with them and they took the referendum against and decided they want to decide themselve about if somebody should get the citicenship or not. From then on the People of Emmen were able to decide themselve about that issue. Unforfunately in the first vote, the People of Emmen decided agains about 20 peolpe from Yugoslavia and gave the citicenship to two Portugueses and a Polish guy. This was credited by the international press as a act of Racism and People who never heard about Emmen or something related made up an Opinion about that issue. In fact this was a call for better politics about handling the issu of Yugoslavian immigrants, as Emmen has the highest percentage of Yugoslav and Albanian Imigrants in Switzerland (about 25 to 30%). Nevertheless, general politics and Human rights campaigners said it is was degrading to people and it was racist as the system discriminated against this people from getting citizenship. Now we are back to old System with the comission, with the difference that the People of Emmen can choose which people sit in this comision. So at least the whole trouble was not absolutely useless and the people will hopefully be satisfied with this system -es A headline is text at the top of a newspaper article, indicating the nature of the article below it. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) or plebiscite (from Latin plebiscita, a decree of the Concilium Plebis) is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...

Population by nationality

External links

• Official Website
• BBC report on the Emmen citizenship tests
• Emmen in German, French or Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
• Emmenbrücke in German, French or Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.