Basel-Landschaft: Facts & Figures
Life in a canton can readily be described in figures, percentages, kilograms, headcounts and many other units of measurement. These make it possible to track a canton’s development at a variety of levels. It is the task of the Statistical Office of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft to record these statistics.
News
Basellandschaftliche Zeitung
Did you know…?
- 160 million-year-old sharks’ teeth and mussel shells have been found in quarries in the Baselbiet.
- 676 guest houses were registered in the Canton of Basel-Landschaft in 2008.
- 0.5% of homes in the Canton are unoccupied.
- 28.5% of the Canton’s electorate voted for a representative of the Liberal Party of Switzerland (LPS) at the last elections to the National Council.
The figures keep coming
- 517.5 km2 is the total area of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft.
- 68 municipalities make up this half-canton.
- 2.3 people live in the average household in Basel-Landschaft.
