Ziefen

Ziefen is a municipality in the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. Ziefen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 42.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 48.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.4%. Out of the forested land, 47.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 11.5% is used for growing crops and 26.9% is pastures, while 4.0% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, an Eagle displayed Sable fesswise, langued, beaked and membered Or. Ziefen has a population () of . , 7.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 12.8%. Most of the population () speaks German (1,269 or 94.1%), with Albanian being second most common (23 or 1.7%) and French being third (15 or 1.1%). the gender distribution of the population was 50.1% male and 49.9% female. The population was made up of 1,416 Swiss citizens (91.7% of the population), and 128 non-Swiss residents (8.3%) Of the population in the municipality 491 or about 36.4% were born in Ziefen and lived there in 2000. There were 364 or 27.0% who were born in the same canton, while 327 or 24.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 131 or 9.7% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 12 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 10 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 2 while the foreign population increased by 1. There were 2 Swiss men who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 3 non-Swiss men and 1 non-Swiss woman who immigrated from another country to Switzerland.