Therwil

Therwil is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country (Basel-Landschaft), Switzerland, about eight kilometres south of the centre of Basel and joined to it by a continuously built-up area that also covers Oberwil, Bottmingen and Binningen. It has an area of 7.63 square kilometres, of which a little under half is farmland and a quarter forest, and about 10,000 people live there, most of them German speaking. The economy is led by manufacturing and services: in 2008 the municipality had roughly 1,850 full-time equivalent jobs, with about 86 percent of its secondary-sector jobs in manufacturing. Its position on the Dornach to Therwil to Leimental line makes it part of the Basel agglomeration.