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Bottmingen
Basel-Landschaftvillage
Bottmingen
Total population
6,314
Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Facts from Wikidata (CC0).
Overview
Bottmingen is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Land in Switzerland.
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History
Bottmingen is first mentioned in 1246 as Bothmingen.
Geography
Bottmingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 25.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 18.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 53.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.3% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 34.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 12.0%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.7% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 4.0%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 14.0% is used for growing crops and 5.0% is pastures, while 6.7% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes. The municipality is located in the Arlesheim district, along the Birsig river. Until 1837 it was part of Binningen. Over the course of the 19th century, it was absorbed by the agglomeration of Basel.
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Geography
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Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Official Identifiers
BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office
- BFS-Nr
- 2767
- Population (Wikidata)
- 6,691
- Wikidata
- Q70036
Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image
- • BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office — Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771