Saas Grund

Saas-Grund
Coat of arms
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Location of Saas-Grund
Coordinates: 46°7′N 7°56′E / 46.117°N 7.933°E / 46.117; 7.933Coordinates: 46°7′N 7°56′E / 46.117°N 7.933°E / 46.117; 7.933
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Valais
District	Visp
Government
• Mayor	Georg Anthamatten
Area
• Total	24.55 km2 (9.48 sq mi)
Elevation	1,559 m (5,115 ft)
Population (Dec 2015)
• Total	1,043
• Density	42/km2 (110/sq mi)
Postal code	3910
SFOS number	6291
Surrounded by	Saas Almagell, Saas Balen, Saas Fee, Simplon
Website	www.saas-grund.ch SFSO statistics

Saas-Grund is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It lies east of Lenzspitze and Dom.

Saas-Grund is first mentioned in 1438 as grunderro.

Saas-Grund has an area, as of 2011^[update], of 24.6 square kilometers (9.5 sq mi). Of this area, 11.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 12.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and 75.2% is unproductive land.

The municipality is located in the Visp district. It consists of the village of Saas-Grund, the hamlets of Unter dem Berg and Ze Laubinu and portions of the hamlets of Tamatten and Unter den Bodmen.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Vert, a bend wavy Argent in chief three Billets Or one and two, in base a Chapel Argent and a Billet Or.

Saas-Grund has a population (as of December 2015^[update]) of 1,043. As of 2008^[update], 12.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010 ) the population has changed at a rate of -10.2%. It has changed at a rate of -10.4% due to migration and at a rate of -0.2% due to births and deaths.

Most of the population (as of 2000^[update]) speaks German (1,068 or 91.5%) as their first language, Serbo-Croatian is the second most common (35 or 3.0%) and Albanian is the third (35 or 3.0%). There are 3 people who speak French, 11 people who speak Italian.