Wintersingen

Wintersingen
Coat of arms
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Location of Wintersingen
Coordinates: 47°30′N 7°49′E / 47.500°N 7.817°E / 47.500; 7.817Coordinates: 47°30′N 7°49′E / 47.500°N 7.817°E / 47.500; 7.817
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Basel-Landschaft
District	Sissach
Area
• Total	6.95 km2 (2.68 sq mi)
Elevation	430 m (1,410 ft)
Population (Mar 2016)
• Total	618
• Density	89/km2 (230/sq mi)
Postal code	4451
SFOS number	2866
Surrounded by	Buus, Magden (AG), Maisprach, Nusshof, Rickenbach, Sissach
Website	www.wintersingen.ch SFSO statistics

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

Wintersingen has an area, as of 2009^[update], of 6.95 square kilometers (2.68 sq mi). Of this area, 4 km² (1.5 sq mi) or 57.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.4 km² (0.93 sq mi) or 34.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.48 km² (0.19 sq mi) or 6.9% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01 km² (2.5 acres) or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and 0.03 km² (7.4 acres) or 0.4% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.6%. Out of the forested land, 31.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 15.7% is used for growing crops and 32.7% is pastures, while 9.2% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, three Arrows bendwise Argent.

Wintersingen has a population (as of March 2016^[update]) of 618. As of 2008^[update], 5.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 0.8%.

Most of the population (as of 2000^[update]) speaks German (564 or 95.9%), with Albanian being second most common (10 or 1.7%) and French being third (5 or 0.9%).