Schaffhausen is a town in northern Switzerland and the capital of the canton of the same name; it has an estimated population of 34,587 as of December 2008.
The official language of Schaffhausen is the Swiss variety of Standard German, but the main spoken language is the local variety of Swiss German.
The old portion of the city has many fine Renaissance era buildings decorated with exterior frescos and sculpture, as well as the impressive old canton fortress, the Munot. A train runs out of town to the nearby Rhine Falls in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Europe's largest waterfall, a tourist attraction.
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