page_title: Meikirch
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Meikirch / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Blick auf Wahlendorf in der Gemeinde Meikirch.
context_page_description: Meikirch is a municipality in the administrative district of Bern-Mittelland in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Meikirch has an area, as of 2013-2014, of 10.23 km² (3.95 sq mi). Of this area, 6.53 km² (2.52 sq mi) or 63.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.69 km² (1.04 sq mi) or 26.3% is forested.  Of the rest of the land, 1.02 km² (0.39 sq mi) or 9.4% is settled (buildings or roads).
  Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 6.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.3%. Out of the forested land, nearly all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 47.5% is used for growing crops and 14.6% is pastures, while 1.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. 
  The municipality is a distant part of the agglomeration of Bern on the south-eastern edge of the Frienisberg plateau. It consists of the villages of Meikirch, Ortschwaben (first mentioned in 1185 as Nortsuaben) and Wahlendorf, the hamlets of Grächwil, Weissenstein and Äzikofen as well as scattered farms.
caption: Wahlendorf village
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