Zunzgen

Geschichte

Zunzgen is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.GeographyZunzgen has an area, of 6.88km2. Of this area, 2.62km2 or 38.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 3.43km2 or 49.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.83km2 or 12.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01km2 or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 6.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.1%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 15.8% is used for growing crops and 13.4% is pastures, while 8.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, a Tower masoned embateled Sable issuant from a mount Gules.DemographicsZunzgen has a population of., 15.1% 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 speaks German (2,194 or 90.2%), with Italian language being second most common (96 or 3.9%) and Albanian being third (29 or 1.2%). There are 15 people who speak French and 1 person who speaks Romansh.