Kilchberg

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Kilchberg is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.HistoryKilchberg is first mentioned in 1226 as Chilhperc.GeographyKilchberg has an area, of 1.59km2. Of this area, 1.13km2 or 71.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.33km2 or 20.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.14km2 or 8.8% is settled (buildings or roads).Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.7%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 45.3% is used for growing crops and 19.5% is pastures, while 6.3% is used for orchards or vine crops.The municipality is located in the Sissach district, in a high valley along the upper Eital river. It consists of the linear village of Kilchberg.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, a Bendlet sable, in base two Bends sinister of the same.DemographicsKilchberg has a population of., 2.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 44.6%.Most of the population speaks German (104 or 95.4%) with the rest speaking French, the gender distribution of the population was 50.4% male and 49.6% female. The population was made up of 123 Swiss citizens (96.9% of the population), and 4 non-Swiss residents (3.1%) Of the population in the municipality 35 or about 32.1% were born in Kilchberg and lived there in 2000. There were 34 or 31.2% who were born in the same canton, while 31 or 28.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 6 or 5.5% were born outside of Switzerland. I