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Burg im Leimental

Summary
Burg im Leimental is a municipality in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. Burg im Leimental is first mentioned in 1168 as Biedertan though this was referring to Alt-Biederthal Castle. In 1520 it was mentioned as Bietterthal, in 1632 as Uf Burgthal and until, 1734 it was known by the French name La Bourg. Burg im Leimental has an area, , of . Of this area, or 14.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 80.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.9% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.1%. Out of the forested land, 79.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0.0% is used for growing crops and 10.6% is pastures, while 3.5% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality is located in the Laufen district, on the northern slope of the Blauen mountains. It is on the French border and along the route to the Roman era Remel Pass. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Burg im Leimental. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, a Bar Sable between three Torteaux. Burg im Leimental has a population () of . , 10.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of -1.3%. Most of the population () speaks German (217 or 94.8%), with English being second most common (6 or 2.6%) and French being third (2 or 0.9%). the gender distribution of the population was 49.6% male and 50.4% female. The population was made up of 216 Swiss citizens (90.0% of the population), and 24 non-Swiss residents (10.0%). Of the population in the municipality 53 or about 23.1% were born in Burg im Leimental and lived there in 2000. There were 35 or 15.3% who were born in the same canton, while 103 or 45.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 32 or 14.
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