Le Locle

Le Locle
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Le Locle
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Coordinates: 47°03′25″N 6°44′55″E / 47.05694°N 6.74861°E / 47.05694; 6.74861
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Neuchâtel
District	Le Locle
Government
• Executive	Conseil communal with 5 members
• Mayor	Président du Conseil communal (list) Denis de la Reussille (as of March 2014)
• Parliament	Conseil général with 41 members
Area [1]
• Total	23.14 km2 (8.93 sq mi)
Elevation	945 m (3,100 ft)
Population  (31 December 2018)[2]
• Total	10,216
• Density	440/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)	2400
SFOS number	6436
Surrounded by	La Chaux-de-Fonds, La Chaux-du-Milieu, La Sagne, Le Cerneux-Péquignot, Les Brenets, Les Planchettes, Les Ponts-de-Martel, Villers-le-Lac (FR-25)
Twin towns	Sidmouth (England), Gérardmer (France)
Website	www.lelocle.ch SFSO statistics

Le Locle is a municipality of the district of Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

It is in the Jura Mountains, a few kilometers from the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds. It is the third smallest city of Switzerland. As of 31 December 2016, Le Locle has about 10,000 people lived there.

The name of the town comes from the word for lake or trou d´eau.

Since 2009, it is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site: La Chaux-de-Fonds/Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "Arealstatistik Standard - Gemeinden nach 4 Hauptbereichen". Federal Statistical Office. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
2. ↑ "Ständige Wohnbevölkerung nach Staatsangehörigkeitskategorie Geschlecht und Gemeinde; Provisorische Jahresergebnisse; 2018". Federal Statistical Office. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.