Therwil

Geography

Therwil is located about 8 kilometres south of the city centre of Basel, to which it is connected by a contiguously built-up area, covered by the municipalities of Oberwil, BL, Bottmingen and Binningen. Therwil has an area, , of . Of this area, , or 46.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 24.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 29.1% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.4% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.4% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 18.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.8%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 2.5%. Out of the forested land, 22.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 34.1% is used for growing crops and 7.1% is pastures, while 5.0% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.