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Känerkinden
Summary
Känerkinden is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
Känerkinden is first mentioned in 1359 as Kennichingen.
Känerkinden has an area, , of . Of this area, or 68.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 13.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 15.5% is settled (buildings or roads).
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 11.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.0%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.4% of the area. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 52.0% is used for growing crops and 7.4% is pastures, while 8.8% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality is located in the Sissach district, in a small depression in the Jura Mountains between the Diegter valley and the Homburger valley.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Sun Or, in base a Plough Argent.
Känerkinden has a population () of . , 8.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of -0.2%.
Most of the population () speaks German (443 or 91.5%), with Italian language being second most common (16 or 3.3%) and French being third (8 or 1.7%). There is 1 person who speaks Romansh.
the gender distribution of the population was 51.1% male and 48.9% female. The population was made up of 446 Swiss citizens (90.1% of the population), and 49 non-Swiss residents (9.9%) Of the population in the municipality 127 or about 26.2% were born in Känerkinden and lived there in 2000. There were 139 or 28.7% who were born in the same canton, while 135 or 27.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 80 or 16.5% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 3 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 3 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens remained the same while the foreign population increased by 1.
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