Böckten
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Böckten is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Böckten
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Bischofstein-Uebersicht.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Coat of arms of Boeckten.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Basel-Landschaft
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BL
- Swiss town.district
- Sissach
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 4461
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2842
- Swiss town.area
- 2.28
- Swiss town.elevation
- 385
- Swiss town.website
- boeckten.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Gelterkinden, Rickenbach, Sissach, Thürnen
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Böckten
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Sissach District
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 820
- Area
- 2.28
- Elevation
- 473
- Body of water
- Ergolz
- Shares border with
- Rickenbach
- Official website
- www.boeckten.ch
- Image
- ETH-BIB-Böckten bei Gelterkinden-Inlandflüge-LBS MH01-002874.tif
- Dialing code
- 061
- Licence plate code
- BL
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- Commons category
- Böckten
- postal code
- 4461
- P8168
- William Miller
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/2842
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Geography
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- History
- Demographics
- Economy
- Transportation
- Religion
- Education
- Social life
- Politics
- Places of interest
- Coat of arms
- References
- External links
Böckten is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
==Geography== thumb|left|Aerial view by Walter Mittelholzer (1922) Böckten has an area, , of . Of this area, or 43.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 41.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 14.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.3% is either rivers or lakes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Böckten” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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