Editing Schaffhausen (section)

===Topography===
The town of Schaffhausen stands on the right bank of the river [[Rhine]]. It has an area, (as of the 2004/09 survey) of {{Swiss area|2939|mi=on}}.{{Swiss area data|2939|QUELLE}} Of this area, about 20.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 53.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 24.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and 1.6% is unproductive land. Over the past two decades (1979/85-2004/09) the amount of land that is settled has increased by {{convert|95|ha|acre|abbr=on}} and the agricultural land has decreased by {{convert|117|ha|acre|abbr=on}}.<ref name="SFSO2016">[https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/regionalstatistik/regionale-portraets-kennzahlen/gemeinden/daten-erlaeuterungen.assetdetail.328115.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Regional portraits] accessed 27 October 2016</ref>

In 1947 it merged with the former municipality of Buchthalen. Its area expanded again in 1964 when Herblingen was absorbed and for a third time in 2009 when [[Hemmental]] joined the municipality.<ref name="HDS">{{HDS|1281|Schaffhausen}}</ref>

Schaffhausen shares an international border with the German village of [[Büsingen am Hochrhein]], an enclave entirely surrounded by Switzerland.