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Encyclopedia > Saanen
Lenk im Simmental
Canton Bern
District Saanen
Coordinates  46°29′ N 7°16′ E (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=46_29_N_7_16_E_region:CH_type:city(7611))
Postal code 3792 Saanen
3780 Gstaad
3777 Saanenmöser
3778 Schönried
Population 7611   (14. Februar 2005)
Area 120.06 km²
Elevation 1014 m
Mayor
Website www.saanen.ch
For other uses of the term, see Saanen (disambiguation).

Saanen is a municipality of the Canton of Berne, Switzerland. It is the capital of the district with the same name. The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ... The Swiss canton of Bern (German: Kanton Bern; French Canton de Berne) has a population of about 947,000. ... 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... In the most common sense of the word, a population is the collection of people—or organisms of a particular species—living in a given geographic area. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... metre or meter, see meter (disambiguation) The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units. ... A mayor (Latin maīor better) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Municipalities are the smallest government division in Switzerland. ... The Swiss canton of Bern (German: Kanton Bern; French Canton de Berne) has a population of about 947,000. ... The Swiss Confederation or Switzerland is a landlocked federal state in Europe, with neighbours Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein. ...


The villages Gstaad, Abländschen, Bissen, Ebnit, Gruben, Grund, Kalberhöni, Saanen, Saanenmöser, Schönried and Turbach are part of the municipality. Gstaad (Population: 2 500) is a small village located (46°28N, 7°17E) 1050m above sea-level, in the German-speaking section of the Bern canton in western Switzerland. ...


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Goat breeds: Saanen (813 words)
Saanens, the first of the improved dairy goat breeds to be brought into Australia, were first imported in 1913 by the New South Wales Department of Agriculture.
Saanens are usually very docile animals and like to keep to a routine so are well-suited to machine milking.
The Saanen buck’s ability should be gauged by his reproductive performance and the quality and performance of his offspring.
SAANEN GOATS (221 words)
Saanen goats originated in Switzerland and were first imported into Britain at the end of the nineteenth century.
Saanen goats are best known for their potentially enormous milk yield; they are also extremely docile and easy to handle.
The Saanen in New Zealand is medium to large, of attractive dairy type, alert and revealing vigour.
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