Schaffhausen
Schaffhausen is a city in north-eastern Switzerland on the river Rhine, next to the German border. Its prime tourist attraction are the Rhine Falls, Europe's largest waterfalls.
- Town with 35,900 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 403 metres (1,322 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code ZKJ
- Description: Swiss city, capital of the canton of Schaffhausen
- Postal codes8200820382078208
- Also known as“Schaffhausen SH”“Schofhausen”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Munot and Rhine Falls.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Neuhausen am Rheinfall and Feuerthalen.
Neuhausen am Rheinfall
Town
Feuerthalen
Village
Flurlingen
Village
Schaffhausen
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Latitude
47.696° or 47° 41′ 46″ north
Longitude
8.6345° or 8° 38′ 4″ east
UN/LOCODE
CH SCH
Open location code
8FVCMJWM+CR
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Schaffhausen” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Schaffhausen”
- Amharic: “ሻፍሃውዘን”
- Arabic: “شافهاوزن”
- Aragonese: “Schaffhausen”
- Armenian: “Շաֆֆհաուզեն”
- Arpitan: “Ch·afouse”
- Azerbaijani: “Şaffxauzen”
- Basque: “Schaffhausen”
- Belarusian: “Шафгаўзен”
- Belarusian: “Шафгаўзэн”
- Bengali: “শাফহাউসেন”
- Breton: “Schaffhausen”
- Bulgarian: “Шафхаузен”
- Catalan: “Schaffhausen”
- Cebuano: “Schaffhausen”
- Chechen: “Шаффхаузен”
- Chinese: “沙夫豪森”
- Chuvash: “Шаффхаузен”
- Croatian: “Schaffhausen”
- Czech: “Šafúzy”
- Czech: “Schaffhausen”
- Danish: “Schaffhausen”
- Dutch: “Schaffhausen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شافهاوزن”
- Esperanto: “Ŝafhaŭzo”
- Estonian: “Schaffhausen”
- Finnish: “Schaffhausen”
- French: “Schaffhouse”
- Galician: “Schaffhausen”
- German: “Schaffhausen”
- Greek: “Σαφχάουζεν”
- Guarani: “Schaffhausen”
- Hausa: “Schaffhausen”
- Hebrew: “שפהאוזן”
- Hindi: “शाफ़हाउज़न”
- Hindi: “शाफहाउसन”
- Hungarian: “Schaffhausen”
- Icelandic: “Schaffhausen”
- Indonesian: “Schaffhausen”
- Irish: “Schaffhausen”
- Italian: “Sciaffusa”
- Japanese: “シャフハウゼン”
- Javanese: “Schaffhausen”
- Kazakh: “Шаффхаузен”
- Kirghiz: “Шаффхаузен”
- Korean: “샤프하우젠”
- Kurdish: “Schaffhausen”
- Latin: “Scafusa”
- Latvian: “Šafhauzene”
- Lithuanian: “Šafhauzenas”
- Lombard: “Sciafüsa”
- Luxembourgish: “Schaffhausen”
- Macedonian: “Шафхаузен”
- Malay: “Schaffhausen”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Schaffhausen”
- Moksha: “Шаффгаузэн”
- Northern Frisian: “Schaffhausen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Schaffhausen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Schaffhausen”
- Norwegian: “Schaffhausen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Schaffhausen”
- Oromo: “Schaffhausen”
- Ossetian: “Шаффхаузен”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਾਫ਼ਹਾਊਜ਼ਨ”
- Persian: “شافهاوزن”
- Persian: “شفوزان”
- Piemontese: “Schaffhausen”
- Polish: “Szafuza”
- Portuguese: “Schaffhausen”
- Portuguese: “Sciaffusa”
- Pushto: “شاف هاوزن”
- Pushto: “شافهاوزن”
- Romanian: “Schaffhausen”
- Romansh: “Schaffusa.”
- Romansh: “Schaffusa”
- Russian: “Шаффхаузен”
- Scots: “Schaffhausen”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Schaffhausen”
- Serbian: “Шафхаузен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Schaffhausen”
- Silesian: “Schaffhausen”
- Slovak: “Schaffhausen”
- Slovenian: “Schaffhausen”
- Somali: “Schaffhausen”
- South Azerbaijani: “شفوزان”
- Spanish: “Escafusa”
- Spanish: “Schaffhausen”
- Swahili: “Schaffhausen”
- Swedish: “Schaffhausen”
- Swiss German: “Schaffhausen”
- Swiss German: “Schafuuse”
- Tajik: “Шаффхаузен”
- Tatar: “Шаффхаузен”
- Tatar: “Шаффһаузен”
- Thai: “ชัฟเฮาเซิน”
- Thai: “ชาฟฟ์เฮาเซิน”
- Turkish: “Scafusa”
- Turkish: “Schaffhausen SH”
- Turkish: “Schaffhausen”
- Turkish: “Schaffhouse”
- Turkish: “Sciaffusa”
- Ukrainian: “Шаффгаузен”
- Upper Sorbian: “Schaffhausen”
- Urdu: “شافہاوزن”
- Uzbek: “Schaffhausen”
- Uzbek: “Shaffxauzen”
- Venetian: “S-ciafuxa”
- Vietnamese: “Schaffhausen”
- Volapük: “Schaffhausen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Schaffhausen”
- Welsh: “Schaffhausen”
- Western Panjabi: “شافہاؤزن”
- Wu Chinese: “沙夫豪森”
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