Waldenburg District

Geschichte

Waldenburg District is one of the five districts of the largely German-speaking canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. The district lies to the south of Basel-Country, bordering the canton of Solothurn. Its capital is the town of Waldenburg. It has a population of. In average 150 persons live in a square kilometre.GeographyWaldenburg district has an area, of 104.93km2. Of this area, 50.72km2 or 48.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 46.27km2 or 44.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 7.69km2 or 7.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.21km2 or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and 0.07km2 or 0.1% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.5%. Out of the forested land, 41.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 10.8% is used for growing crops and 27.5% is pastures, while 3.8% is used for orchards or vine crops and 6.3% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.MunicipalitiesWaldenburg contains a total of fifteen municipalities:DemographicsWaldenburg district has a population of., 13.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals.Most of the population speaks German (13,765 or 90.9%), with Italian language being second most common (357 or 2.4%) and Albanian being third (280 or 1.8%). There are 100 people who speak French and 12 people who speak Romansh.