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Schönenbuch
Basel-Landschaftvillage
Schönenbuch
Total population
1,414
Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Facts from Wikidata (CC0).
Overview
Schönenbuch is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.
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History
Schönenbuch is first mentioned in 1315 as Schoenenbuoch. It became an independent municipality in 1816.
Geography
Schönenbuch has an area, , of . Of this area, or 65.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 1.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 30.9% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.9% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 19.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.4%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 47.1% is used for growing crops and 7.4% is pastures, while 11.0% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality is located in the Arlesheim district, on the edge of the Sundgau and bordered by France on three sides. It is at an elevation of above sea level and is the second smallest municipality in the canton of Basel-Country. The village is enclosed on three sides by France (municipalities Neuwiller and Hagenthal-le-Bas). Only in the northeast does it have a connection to the town of Allschwil. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Schönenbuch.
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Geography
Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
Climate
Air quality
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Amenities nearby
Wildlife & biodiversity
Earthquake history
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Sights & places nearby
Notable people from here
Nearby places in Basel-Landschaft
- Allschwil1.9 mi away · pop. 20,249
- Biel-Benken BL2.3 mi away · pop. 3,255
- Oberwil BL2.9 mi away · pop. 11,105
- Binningen3.2 mi away · pop. 14,905
- Bottmingen3.5 mi away · pop. 6,314
- Therwil3.7 mi away · pop. 10,007
- Ettingen4.3 mi away · pop. 4,978
- Reinach5.1 mi away · pop. 18,839
- Münchenstein5.5 mi away · pop. 11,688
- Birsfelden6.1 mi away · pop. 10,277
- Burg im Leimental6.2 mi away · pop. 252
- Blauen6.2 mi away · pop. 660
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.
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Official Identifiers
BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office
- BFS-Nr
- 2774
- Population (Wikidata)
- 1,385
- Wikidata
- Q66508
Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Elevation
- • 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