The Moesa Region is one of the eleven administrative districts in the Canton of the Grisons (or in German: Graubünden) in Switzerland. It had an area of and a population of (as of ). It was created on 1 January 2017 as part of a reorganization of the Canton.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz - Mutationsmeldungen 2016 accessed 16 February 2017
+ Municipalities in the Moesa Region Municipality Population () Area (km2) Buseno Castaneda Rossa Santa Maria in Calanca Lostallo Mesocco Soazza Cama Grono Roveredo (GR) San Vittore Calanca
The region borders with the Viamala Region to the north, with Italy to the east (Lombardy: Province of Sondrio and of Como) and with the Canton of Ticino (districts of Bellinzona to the southwest, Riviera and Blenio) to the west.
Politics
Administrative division
The Moesa region is divided into 12 municipalities:
Emblem Name of the municipality Inhabitants Surfacein km2 Buseno 11.15 Calanca 37.72 Cama 15.00 Castaneda 3.96 Grono 134036.41 Lostallo 50.86 Mesocco 164.76 Rossa 58.88 Roveredo 38.79 Santa Maria in Calanca 9.31 San Vittore 22.06 Soazza 46.42
Demography The Moesa region has about 8500 inhabitants, mostly Italian-speaking, and is part of Italian-speaking Graubünden and Italian-speaking Switzerland. It is linked economically to the Canton of Ticino; linguistically, however, a Lombard Alpine dialect is spoken that is heavily influenced by Germanic terms.
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