Wängi

Geschichte

Wängi is a municipality in the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.GeographyWängi has an area, of 16.43km2. Of this area, 11.68km2 or 71.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.67km2 or 16.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.02km2 or 12.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.07km2 or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01km2 or 0.1% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 5.7% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 0.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.4%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 4.9%. Out of the forested land, 15.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 67.4% is used for growing crops, while 3.7% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.In 1969 Krillberg and Tuttwil merged into Wängi.DemographicsWängi has a population of, 12.7% of the population are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 2.3%. Most of the population speaks German(90.5%), with Albanian being second most common ( 2.2%) and Italian being third ( 2.1%)., the gender distribution of the population was 50.9% male and 49.1% female. The population was made up of 1,813 Swiss men (44.2% of the population), and 277 (6.7%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,772 Swiss women (43.2%), and 244 (5.9%) non-Swiss women.