Gäu (district)
Gäu District is one of the ten districts of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland, situated in the centre of the canton. It has a population of 20,398 (as of 31 December 2015). Together with Thal District, it forms the Amtei (electoral district) of Thal-Gäu.
Gäu District contains the following municipalities:
Gäu has an area, as of 2009[update], of 62.01 square kilometers (23.94 sq mi). Of this area, 27.74 km2 (10.71 sq mi) or 44.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 23.36 km2 (9.02 sq mi) or 37.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 10.41 km2 (4.02 sq mi) or 16.8% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.44 km2 (0.17 sq mi) or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes and 0.06 km2 (15 acres) or 0.1% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 3.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 6.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.0%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.5% of the area Out of the forested land, 36.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 41.9% is used for growing crops, while 1.2% is used for orchards or vine crops and 1.6% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the district is flowing water.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Tierced per fess Gules Argent and Sable.
Gäu has a population (as of December 2015[update]) of 20,398.
Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (15,113 or 90.3%), with Albanian being second most common (353 or 2.1%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (309 or 1.8%). There are 82 people who speak French and 7 people who speak Romansh.
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