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Ormalingen

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Ormalingen is a municipality in the district of Sissach, in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. Ormalingen is first mentioned in 1280 as Normendingen. Ormalingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 51.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 37.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 11.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 7.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.7%. Out of the forested land, 34.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 14.8% is used for growing crops and 30.4% is pastures, while 5.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Sissach district, in the upper Ergolz valley on the old road over the Schafmatt pass. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess, Or, a Mullet Gules, and Azure. Ormalingen has a population () of . , 10.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 7.3%. Most of the population () speaks German (1,747 or 92.9%), with Italian language being second most common (42 or 2.2%) and Albanian being third (31 or 1.6%). There are 10 people who speak French and 1 person who speaks Romansh. the gender distribution of the population was 50.6% male and 49.4% female. The population was made up of 1,727 Swiss citizens (89.4% of the population), and 205 non-Swiss residents (10.6%) Of the population in the municipality 548 or about 29.1% were born in Ormalingen and lived there in 2000. There were 626 or 33.3% who were born in the same canton, while 402 or 21.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 215 or 11.4% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 11 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 11 deaths of Swiss citizens and 2 non-Swiss citizen deaths.
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