Geography
Neuhausen am Rheinfall has an area, as of 2006, of 8.1 km2 (3.1 sq mi). Of this area, 14.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 51.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 30.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (3.2%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes).
The municipality is located in the Schaffhausen district. Originally a haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) on the south foot of the Randen range near the Rhine Falls, today it is an industrial city. It is located on the south-west border of the city of Schaffhausen. Until 1938 Neuhausen am Rheinfall was known as Neuhausen.
The neighboring municipalities are Laufen-Uhwiesen, Flurlingen, Feuerthalen, Schaffhausen, Beringen, Guntmadingen and the German municipality Jestetten, with which it has a border crossing along Zollstrasse to the southwest of town.
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