page_title: Sissach
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Sissach / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: View over Sissach Deutsch: Blick auf Sissach von der Sissacherfluh (700 m.ü.M.) Français&#160;: Vue sur Sissach depuis le Sissacherfluh Fotografiert von Sissacher
context_page_description: Sissach is a municipality and the capital of the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Sissach has an area,of 8.87 square kilometers (3.42 sq mi). Of this area, 2.5 km² (0.97 sq mi) (28.2%) is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.22 km² (0.86 sq mi) (25.0%) is developed. Of the rest of the land, 4.13 km² (1.59 sq mi) (46.6%) is forested, 0.02 km² (0.0077 sq mi) (0.2%) is aqueous, and 0.01 km² (0.0039 sq mi) (0.1%) is otherwise undeveloped.
  Of the developed area, housing and buildings make up 12.4%, transportation infrastructure makes up 6.3%, and industrial buildings make up 2.8% .  Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas make up 1.6% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields make up 1.9%. Out of the forested land, 45.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 3.6% is used for growing crops and 16.9% is pastures, while 7.7% is used for orchards or vine crops.
  The municipality is the capital of the district with the same name. Sissach village was originally a linear village along the Ergolz river.  By the beginning of the 21st Century, it had expanded to fill the entire valley and part of the slopes around the valley.  It grew along the road between the Schafmatt and Unterer Hauenstein Jura passes.  It includes the settlements of Itchon (first mentioned in 1226), and Gruonach and Wilmatten (both mentioned in 1446).
caption: Sissach
exif: {}