Sissach (district)
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Sissach District Bezirk Sissach |
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| Country |
 Switzerland
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| Canton |
 Basel-Landschaft
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| Capital | Sissach |
| Area | |
| • Total | 138.29 km2 (53.39 sq mi) |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 35,529 |
| • Density | 260/km2 (670/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Municipalities | 29 |
Sissach District is one of the five districts of the largely German-speaking canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. It has a population of 35,529 (as of 31 March 2016). The district occupies the western portion of Basel-Country, bordering the neighbouring cantons of canton of Aargau and Solothurn. Its capital is the town of Sissach.
Sissach district has an area, as of 2009[update], of 141 square kilometers (54 sq mi). Of this area, 69.56 km2 (26.86 sq mi) or 49.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 55.98 km2 (21.61 sq mi) or 39.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 15.06 km2 (5.81 sq mi) or 10.7% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.25 km2 (0.097 sq mi) or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and 0.13 km2 (32 acres) or 0.1% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.4%. Out of the forested land, 38.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 19.7% is used for growing crops and 23.8% is pastures, while 5.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
Sissach contains a total of twenty-nine municipalities:
Sissach district has a population (as of March 2016[update]) of 35,529. As of 2008[update], 12.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals.
Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (28,263 or 91.1%), with Italian language being second most common (730 or 2.4%) and Albanian being third (396 or 1.3%). There are 210 people who speak French and 18 people who speak Romansh.
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