Schlans is a former municipality in the district of Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

Of the rest of the land, 1.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (28.7%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

[3] The municipality is located in the Disentis sub-district of the Surselva district on the heights above the Vorderrhein valley.

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks the Sursilvan dialect of Romansh(81.5%), with German being second most common (14.1%) and Spanish being third ( 3.3%).

[5] The age distribution, as of 2000[update], in Schlans is; 15 children or 16.3% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 11 teenagers or 12.0% are between 10 and 19.