page_title: Ormalingen
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Ormalingen / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Teilansicht von Ormalingen, Schweiz
context_page_description: Ormalingen is a municipality in the district of Sissach, in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Ormalingen has an area, as of 2009, of 6.94 square kilometers (2.68 sq mi).  Of this area, 3.54 km² (1.37 sq mi) or 51.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.6 km² (1.0 sq mi) or 37.5% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 0.79 km² (0.31 sq mi) or 11.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01 km² (2.5 acres) 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.
caption: Ormalingen village
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