Giebenach

Giebenach is a municipality in the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. Giebenach is first mentioned in 1246 as in villa Gibenacho. Giebenach has an area, , of . Of this area, or 57.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 17.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 24.6% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 14.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.5%. Out of the forested land, 16.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 44.8% is used for growing crops and 10.4% is pastures, while 2.2% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality is located in the Liestal district, at the confluence of the Violen and Arisdorfer streams to the south-east of Augst. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Giebenach. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Pentagram Argent. Giebenach has a population () of . , 18.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 29.6%. Most of the population () speaks German (738 or 92.5%), with Italian language being second most common (18 or 2.3%) and French being third (10 or 1.3%). the gender distribution of the population was 51.1% male and 48.9% female. The population was made up of 824 Swiss citizens (82.4% of the population), and 176 non-Swiss residents (17.6%) Of the population in the municipality 136 or about 17.0% were born in Giebenach and lived there in 2000. There were 182 or 22.8% who were born in the same canton, while 346 or 43.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 115 or 14.4% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 10 live births to Swiss citizens and were 4 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 6 while the foreign population remained the same.