Tenniken

Tenniken
Coat of arms
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Location of Tenniken
Coordinates: 47°26′N 7°49′E / 47.433°N 7.817°E / 47.433; 7.817Coordinates: 47°26′N 7°49′E / 47.433°N 7.817°E / 47.433; 7.817
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Basel-Landschaft
District	Sissach
Area
• Total	4.66 km2 (1.80 sq mi)
Elevation	430 m (1,410 ft)
Population (Mar 2016)
• Total	909
• Density	200/km2 (510/sq mi)
Postal code	4456
SFOS number	2863
Surrounded by	Diegten, Diepflingen, Hölstein, Thürnen, Wittinsburg, Zunzgen
Website	www.tenniken.ch SFSO statistics

Tenniken is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.

Tenniken has an area, as of 2009^[update], of 4.66 square kilometers (1.80 sq mi). Of this area, 2.23 km² (0.86 sq mi) or 47.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.92 km² (0.74 sq mi) or 41.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.53 km² (0.20 sq mi) or 11.4% is settled (buildings or roads).

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.5%. Out of the forested land, 40.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 23.0% is used for growing crops and 20.8% is pastures, while 4.1% is used for orchards or vine crops.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale, Or a letter Tau Sable, and bendy of six Sable and Argent.

Tenniken has a population (as of March 2016^[update]) of 909. As of 2008^[update], 6.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of -7.3%.

Most of the population (as of 2000^[update]) speaks German (875 or 97.2%), with Spanish being second most common (8 or 0.9%) and French being third (4 or 0.4%).

As of 2008^[update], the gender distribution of the population was 47.9% male and 52.1% female. The population was made up of 824 Swiss citizens (93.0% of the population), and 62 non-Swiss residents (7.0%) Of the population in the municipality 271 or about 30.1% were born in Tenniken and lived there in 2000. There were 328 or 36.4% who were born in the same canton, while 229 or 25.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 69 or 7.7% were born outside of Switzerland.