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Canton of Basel-Landschaft or Basel-Country, informally known as Baselland or Baselbiet (/ ˌ b ɑː z ə l ˈ l æ n d ʃ ɑː f t /; German: Kanton Basel-Landschaft [ˈkantɔn ˌbaːzl̩ ˈlantʃaft] ⓘ; Romansh: Chantun Basilea-Champagna; French: Canton de Bâle-Campagne [bɑl.kɑ̃.paɲ]; Italian: Canton Basilea Campagna), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.
The cantonal governments are directly elected every four years. In some cantons (e.g. Basel-Stadt), the voters can cast a presidential vote for a candidate they are already voting for as member of the government. The elected member who has also received the most votes for president takes that office for the entirety of their term on the council ...
Seven of the 26 cantons – Uri, Obwalden, Nidwalden, Glarus, Zug, Basel-City and Geneva – have always existed without the district level of government. An eighth one, Appenzell Innerrhoden , uses no intermediate level either, but calls its lowest-level subdivisions Bezirke, although they are functionally equivalent to municipalities elsewhere.
The company is based in Liestal, Basel-Landschaft, with two offices based in Liestal and Basel. Its editor-in-chief is Franz C. Widmer. [1] As of 2018, covering the Basel region, its daily circulation according to WEMF, stood at 21,632 or 24,306 widespread copies. [2] Its Wednesday weekly circulation was reported to be 117,469. [2]
Liestal district has a population (as of June 2021) of 62,086. [2] As of 2008, 24.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. [3] Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (45,694 or 84.0%), with Italian language being second most common (2,607 or 4.8%) and Turkish being third (1,102 or 2.0%).
In Zeglingen about 193 or (43.3%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 35 or (7.8%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 35 who completed tertiary schooling, 77.1% were Swiss men, 17.1% were Swiss women. [8]
35 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 13 businesses in this sector. [8] There were 350 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 39.7% of the workforce. In 2008 the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 45. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 9, all of which were ...
Rank Canton GRDP per capita (in CHF) 1 Basel-Stadt: 209,782 2 Zug: 192,958 3 Geneva: 119,644 4 Neuchâtel: 106,165 5 Zürich: 104,620 6 Ticino: 102,190 7