Oberwil is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, called Basel-Country in English, Switzerland. It is first mentioned around 1102 to 1103 as Oberuuilre. The municipality covers about 7.88 square kilometres as of 2009, of which 44.0 percent is used for farming, 19.5 percent is forested and 35.8 percent is settled land such as buildings and roads. Most residents speak German as their first language, with English the second most common in the 2000 data, and in 2008 about 18 percent of the population were resident foreign nationals. More than 11,000 people lived in Oberwil in 2021.
Facts
Area (sq km) Elevation (m) Elevation Band Sources
1. citypopulation.de: Switzerland: Cantons and Cities
citypopulation.deCities table, population estimate of 2020-12-31
Oberwil BL 7,646 8,626 9,363 10,442 11,104 11,457
On Continent: Europe, Page header, Europe, Switzerland
Europe → Switzerland
View the Source 2. Oberwil, Basel-Landschaft (Wikipedia)
Geography
Oberwil has an area, as of 2009, of 7.88 square kilometers
Part Of: Switzerland, Lead
in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
View the Source3. Opentopodata (SRTM): SRTM 90 m elevation at 47.5167,7.55
Opentopodata (SRTM)Elevation of the place coordinates 47.5167,7.55, band assigned from the figure (up to 10 m sea level, under 500 m lowland, under 1500 m highland, otherwise mountain)Quote, Elevation of the place coordinates 47.5167,7.55, band assigned from the figure (up to 10 m sea level, under 500 m lowland, under 1500 m highland, otherwise mountain)
"elevation": 350.0
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