Lupsingen

Lupsingen is a municipality in the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. Lupsingen is first mentioned in 1194 as Lubesingin. Lupsingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 40.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 44.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 15.7% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 12.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.6%. Out of the forested land, 43.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 19.9% is used for growing crops and 18.9% is pastures, while 1.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality is located in the Liestal district, in a shallow depression in the Oris valley. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, a Wolf rampant Azure, armed, langued, vilené and of mouths Gules, toothed Argent. Lupsingen has a population () of . , 7.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 15.6%. Most of the population () speaks German (1,173 or 94.8%), with Albanian being second most common (17 or 1.4%) and French being third (11 or 0.9%). the gender distribution of the population was 49.3% male and 50.7% female. The population was made up of 1,233 Swiss citizens (91.1% of the population), and 120 non-Swiss residents (8.9%) Of the population in the municipality 278 or about 22.5% were born in Lupsingen and lived there in 2000. There were 348 or 28.1% who were born in the same canton, while 435 or 35.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 140 or 11.3% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 6 live births to Swiss citizens and were 2 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 4 while the foreign population remained the same. There was 1 Swiss man who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there was 1 non-Swiss man and 4 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland.